Abstract
This research examined the relationship between types of passion and burnout and goal attainment in sport, and assessed if coping mediated these relationships. College- and university-level volleyball players (N =239; female n = 126) participated in a prospective observational study involving two time points approximately 3 months apart. Residualized change scores were used to assess the relationships between changes in the measured variables. Results revealed that change in burnout was negatively associated with change in task-oriented coping and positively associated with changes in distraction- and disengagement-oriented coping. Change in goal attainment was positively associated with change in task-oriented coping and negatively associated with change in disengagement-oriented coping. Change in harmonious passion was negatively associated with change in burnout, and this relationship was mediated by distraction- and disengagement-oriented coping. Change in obsessive passion was positively associated with change in burnout, and this relationship was mediated by change in disengagement-oriented coping. Change in harmonious passion was also positively associated with change in goal attainment, and this relationship was mediated by both changes in task- and disengagement-oriented coping. Overall, these results highlight the role of coping in the relationships between types of passion and both burnout and goal attainment in sport.Acknowledgments: Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada