Sintomatología del síndrome de burnout en deportistas: un estudio con metodología Delphi

The main aim of the current research was to increase the knowledge of the behavioural, cognitive and physiological symptoms of burnout in athletes, throughout the perception of sports psychologists with experience in the syndrome and other group without burnout experience. For this, a Delphi methodology in a sample of 28 experts in Sport Psychology was carried out, being the gender distribution of 60.7% male and 39.3% female. The assessment tool consisted of three Delphi semi-structured questionnaires designed specifically by researchers and adapted from a prior investigation. Results were analysed through the SPSS 22.0 program. Both groups highlight as behavioural symptoms: lack of training adherence and low sport performance; as cognitive symptoms: sport devaluation and ideas of drop out of sport; and as physiological symptoms: tension and physical exhaustion. This raises future proposals to analyse other variables related to burnout syndrome.