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Abstract:The aim of this study was to compare selected psychological constructs of Mexican male and female athletes of individual and team sports who participated in the National Inter-Polytechnic Games in Durango, México, 2016. One hundred and ninety eight athletes completed a questionnaire about burnout syndrome, sports climate, depression, somatic anxiety, cognitive anxiety, and self-esteem. Results indicated a higher number of men in individual sports and women in team sports with less burnout risk (χ 2 = 16.71, p < 0.001), but with low self-esteem (χ 2 = 20.76, p < 0.001). No significant interactions were found between sports and gender variables for age, general burnout, sports climate, overall self-esteem, confidence, and body satisfaction (p > 0.05). Women had lower mean depression scores than men (45.34 ± 9.42 vs. 47.66 ± 7.64, p = 0.025). Athletes in team sports had lower scores in somatic anxiety than individual sports athletes (13.83 ± 4.51 vs. 14.70 ± 4.94, p = 0.018), and men had lower somatic anxiety scores than women (13.22 ± 4.29 vs. 14.76 ± 4.83, p = 0.002). In conclusion, women showed higher cognitive anxiety scores than men and both showed similarities and differences in psychological constructs related to sports performance during the university sport competition.

Comparison of psychological constructs in university athletes during a national competition (Comparación de constructos psicológicos en deportistas universitarios durante una competición nacional)

“…Anxiety consists of two subcomponents, cognitive and somatic (Singh & , 0 = female), sport category (1 = individual, 0 = team), regions (-1 = North, 0 = Central, 1 = South). Gaurav, 2011); the results of the present study show low anxiety scores, with male athletes scoring better and similar to previous studies (Arbinaga Ibarzábal, 2013;Ponseti Verdaguer, García Más, Cantallops Ramón & Vidal Conti, 2017;Villarreal-Ángeles et al, 2017;Zarauz Sancho & Ruiz Juan, 2013). Athletes participating in team sports also showed lower anxiety scores similar to previous studies (Parnabas et al, 2015a(Parnabas et al, , 2015bParnabas et al, 2015c;Parnabas et al, 2015d;Parnabas et al, 2015e) examining the effect of cognitive anxiety on the athletic performance of university players.…”

“…The findings of low self-esteem could be explained by the novelty of the subsystem of polytechnic universities in Mexico; therefore, students are not used to university competitions at the national level, which may influence their usual context (i.e., fans, facilities, traveling), which might impact their selfesteem. However, the results of the present study are similar to a previous finding in a similar sample of Mexican student-athletes (Villarreal-Ángeles et al, 2017).…”

“…Evidence of athlete's comprehensive training (i.e., physical and mental) (DeFreese & Smith, 2014), suggest that burnout can exacerbate other variables (i.e., cognitive and emotional anxiety) even outside the sport climate results, which were similar to those found in the present study were males scored low in cognitive anxiety and females showed good self-esteem scores. This may represent satisfactory scores in burnout results in agreement with previous studies (Olivares Tenza et al, 2018;Villarreal-Ángeles et al, 2017).…”