Preliminary Psychometric Validation of the Teammate Burnout Questionnaire

Ralph Appleby; Paul Anthony Davis; Louise Davis; Andreas Stenling; Will Vickery

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894308

Preliminary Psychometric Validation of the Teammate Burnout Questionnaire

Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 1:13:894308. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894308. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Ralph Appleby¹, Paul Anthony Davis², Louise Davis², Andreas Stenling², Will Vickery³

Affiliations

¹ The Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS), Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
² Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
³ Coaching and Officiating, Sport Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to provide support for the validation of the Teammate Burnout Questionnaire (TBQ). Athletes from a variety of team sports (N = 290) completed the TBQ and the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ). Confirmatory factor analysis revealed acceptable fit indexes for the three-dimensional models (i.e., physical and emotional exhaustion, sport devaluation, reduced accomplishment) of the TBQ and the ABQ. Multi-trait multi-method analysis revealed that the TBQ and ABQ showed acceptable convergent and discriminant validity. The preliminary validation of the TBQ indicates the utility of the scale to reflect athletes' perceptions of their teammates' burnout and offers researchers the opportunity to quantitatively assess an important aspect of the social environment in the development of athlete burnout.

Keywords: exhaustion; measurement; social environment; social perceptions; team sport.