Constantino Arce Fernández

Relationship between Leadership among Peers and Burnout in Sports Teams

This study has been conducted with the aim of ascertaining the relationship between peer leaders in sport teams and the levels of burnout experienced by their team-mates. A total of 219 Spanish athletes involved in football and basketball participated in the study. To measure leadership among peers, we employed the Sports Peer Leadership Scale, which comprises 24 items, grouped into 6 primary factors: empathy, influence on decision making, sports values, social support, training orientation and competition orientation. And to measure burnout, we employed the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire, which comprises 15 items which are indicators of physical and emotional exhaustion, devaluation and reduced sense of accomplishment among athletes. The results led to the conclusion that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between perceived leadership capacity and the levels of burnout experience by a team. The greater the level of leadership capacity perceived, the lower the levels of burnout will be. A multiple regression analysis with total burnout as dependent variable and social and task orientations of the leader as predictors showed standardized regression coefficients of -.241 (p = .010) and -.076 (p = .413), respectively for social and task orientation, being the effect size equal to .089.

Adaptación Española de la Escala de Pasión al Ámbito Deportivo

espanolLa pasion experimentada hacia una actividad constituye uno de los principales factores explicativos del bienestar fisico y emocional. El tipo de pasion desarrollada hacia el deporte, obsesiva o armoniosa, presenta diferentes consecuencias en terminos emocionales y de adherencia. El presente trabajo plantea la adaptacion al castellano de la Escala de Pasion en el contexto deportivo. En el primer estudio, la escala se aplico a 146 deportistas (M edad =15. 94; DT edad =1. 99). Una vez calibrada la escala, se valido sobre 396 deportistas de diferentes categorias competitivas (M edad =18 . 74; DT edad =6 . 35) pertenecientes a distintas Comunidades Autonomas y disciplinas deportivas. Diversos an alisis cuantitativos han permitido confirmar la bidimensionalidad de la escala (χ 2 =183. 41, gl=67; CFI= . 95; TLI= .93; RMSEA=0. 056 - 0 . 079; WRMR=. 94), asi como su adecuada fiabilidad ( α=. 81 en ambas dimensiones). Se aportan evidencias de validez en relacion con otras variables como el afecto, la motivacion y el apoyo a la autonomia por parte del entrenador. EnglishPassion towards an activity constitutes one of the main features when explaining both physical and emotional well - being. The type of passion experienced toward sport, obsessive or harmonious, has different effects on emotions and exercise adherence. A Spanish adaption of the Passion Scale in sport context is proposed in this paper. In the first study, the scale has been applied to 146 athletes (M age = 15.94; SD age =1.99). Once the scale was calibrated, 396 athletes from different competitive categories (M age =18.74; SD age = 6.35), Autonomous Communities and sports were assessed. Qu antitative analyses confirmed the bidimensionality of the scale (χ 2 /df = 2.74, CF I=95; TLI=93; RMSEA= 0.056 - 0.079; WRMR=.94), showing and adequate reliability (α= .81 in both dimensions). Evidence of validity in relation to other variables such as affect, moti vation and coach autonomy support are provided.

La percepción de la conducta agresiva: Un estudio taxonómico de las diferencias inter e intraculturales

This study empirically attempts to offer contributions for the classification of aggressive episodes. The proximity data approach is followed. Under this perspective, aggressive episodes are mapped as points in a n-dimensional space. Data were collected for two different spanish subcultures: undergraduates and prisoners. An individual differences multidimensional escaling model and method (Carroll and Chang, 1970) was used co analyze the data. The four-dimensional solution was retained. Differences between subcultures are found.