Goal orientation and burnout among national pool of obstacle course racing: An analysis

• Main Authors: Aguinaldo, Jerrwin C., Cabreros, Anthony, Olarte, Christopher, Oña, Darwin Ryan
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Athletes—Psychology; Goal (Psychology); Burn out (Psychology); Obstacle racing; Sports Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/9367
• Institution: De La Salle University

Goal orientation is classified into task and ego. Task orientation is associated with the belief that success is a function of mastery of skills. Task-oriented individuals focus on developing skills, exerting effort, and self-improvement. Ego-orientation is linked to the notion that success is a function of how well a person performs relative to other people. For ego-oriented athletes, success is outperforming others using superior ability as opposed to high effort or personal improvement. This research obtained the goal orientation and the level of burnout of National Training Pool of Obstacle Course Racing in the year 2019. It delimited its scope to the members of national training pool of OCR who actively underwent rigorous training for the 2019 South East Asian Games and other international competitions and participated in the following events: 100m, 5km, team assist and team relay. The researchers focused on determining the athletes’ goal orientation, level of burnout, their relationship and significant difference. Descriptive method of research was used to come up with an adequate and accurate interpretation of the findings concerning the current status of OCR athletes. A survey questionnaire was developed for the gathering of data and was utilized in the conduct of the athletes’ training. The result of the study shows that task orientation has generally no significant relationship in the over-all burnout of the athletes while there is a significant difference in athletes’ task and ego orientation and athletes’ types of burnout. The way how athletes motivate themselves, whether intrinsically or extrinsically doesn’t affect their level of burnout therefore, null hypothesis 1 is accepted. On the other hand, these motivations create a difference on athletes’ performances that is why null hypothesis 2 is rejected. Comparably, being actively involved and successful in sports doesn’t mean athletes are not prone to burnout the reason null hypothesis 3 is rejected.