Keywords
sportspeople
prevalence
body image.
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Abstract
Different psychological variables have recently been discovered as enablers of the burnout syndrome. Moreover, it must be added the high prevalence rates of the syndrome on international sportspeople. The aim of the paper was to establish the prevalence rate of the syndrome in the Spanish sportspeople and to analyze its relationship with the perception of body image. 397 sportspeople took part in the research (59.8% men) aged between 13 and 64 years old (M = 19.23 and SD = 6.67) of different sports (35% individual sports). The results show a prevalence rate of burnout syndrome in the context of national sports 2.77% and the existence of a relationship between the syndrome and a negative body image perception, especially with the dimensions of devaluation (rxy = 0.336) and reduced sense of accomplishment (rxy = 0.44). Moreover, using SEM, negative body image could be proposed as a psychological consequence added to those derived from the syndrome itself.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.