Validation of a French Version of the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ)

Abstract

This research develops a psychometrically sound measure of the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ; Raedeke & Smith, 2001 ) in French (Le Questionnaire du Burnout Sportif, QBS). We first developed a preliminary version and then had 895 French adolescents involved in competitive sport or physical education at school complete the survey. The results showed good internal consistency (all Cronbach’s α values > .75). Confirmatory factor analysis with the three subscales of the ABQ (emotional and physical exhaustion, reduced sense of accomplishment, and devaluation) confirmed the structure of the instrument and good data fit (NNFI = .95, CFI = .96, GFI = .95, RMSEA = .07) in accordance with the results obtained in previous studies (e.g., Cresswell & Eklund, 2005a , b ; Raedeke & Smith, 2001 ). Furthermore, the patterns of relationships between the ABQ subscales and motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety provide concurrent validity of the ABQ.

Adaptation of the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire in a Spanish Sample of Athletes

“…Moreover, the conclusion was reached that the internal consistency of the questionnaire could not be improved, even if any of its items were eliminated. Hence, the results of the reliability analysis coincide with those obtained in the original version by Raedeke and Smith (2001) and with those obtained in many other transcultural adaptations of the ABQ such as, for example, the Chinese one (Lu et al, 2006), the French one (Perreault et al, 2007;Isoard-Gautheur et al, 2010), the Norwegian one (Lemyre et al, 2007), the Portuguese one (Alvarez et al, 2006) and the Arabic one (Altahayneh, 2005).…”

Validez de constructo de la versión española del ABQ a través de aproximación multi-rasgo/multi-método

“…Currently, the most commonly used measure of this construct in athletic populations is the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ; Raedeke & Smith, 2001. Although this scale was originally developed in English, in recent years it has been translated into several other languages including Arabic (Altahayneh, 2005), Chinese (Chen & Kee, 2008;Lu, Chen, and Cho, 2006), French (Perreault, Gaudreau, Lapointe, & Lacroix, 2007;Isoard-Gautheur, Oger, Guillet, & Martin-Krumm, 2010), German (Ziemainz, Abu-Omar, Raedeke, and Krause, 2004), Norwegian (Lemyre, Hall & Roberts, 2008;Lemyre, Roberts & Stray-Gundersen, 2007), Portuguese (Rosado, Mesquita, Correia, Colaço, 2009;Alvarez, Ferreira, & Borim, 2006), Spanish (Arce, De Francisco, Andrade, Arce, & Raedeke, 2010;De Francisco, Arce, Andrade, Arce & Raedeke 2009) and Swedish (Smith, Gustafsson, & Hassmén, 2010). Although the ABQ is commonly used, research specifically anales de psicología, 2013, vol.…”

Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations Between Athlete Burnout, Insomnia, and Polysomnographic Indices in Young Elite Athletes

“…In line with Maslach and Jackson's (1981) definition of occupational burnout, Raedeke (1997) defined athlete burnout as a multidimensional syndrome consisting of three components, namely (i) emotional and physical exhaustion (a perceived depletion of emotional and physical resources beyond that associated with training and competition), (ii) reduced sense of accomplishment (a tendency to evaluate oneself negatively in terms of sport abilities and achievement), and (iii) sport devaluation (the development of a cynical attitude towards involvement in elite sport). These three dimensions are generally assessed with the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ; Raedeke & Smith, 2009), an instrument having shown acceptable psychometric properties in previous research (Guedes & de Souza, 2016;Isoard-Gautheur, Oger, Guillet, & Martin-Krumm, 2010;Raedeke, Arce, De Francisco, Seoane, & Ferraces, 2013;Raedeke & Smith, 2001).…”