Mindfulness and athlete burnout among olympic combat sport athletes: the mediating role of athlete self-compassion and the moderating role of emotion regulation
Zülbiye Kaçay, Emrah Seçer, Özkan Işık, Yunus Şahinler, Laurentiu-Gabriel Talaghir, Mariana Constantinescu, Cristina-Corina Benţea, Teodora Mihaela Iconomescu · 2026
Read Mindfulness and athlete burnout among olympic combat sport athletes: the mediating role of athlete self-compassion and the moderating role of emotion regulation by Zülbiye Kaçay, Emrah Seçer, Özkan Işık, Yunus Şahinler, Laurentiu-Gabriel Talaghir, Mariana Constantinescu, Cristina-Corina Benţea, Teodora Mihaela Iconomescu (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13581536.txt.
Description
Kaçay and colleagues survey in twenty twenty-six Olympic combat sport athletes to trace how mindfulness links to burnout. Burnout drains athletes through exhaustion and lost motivation. The team asked several hundred active fighters to rate mindfulness, self-compassion, emotion control, and burnout on standard scales.
Mindfulness predicted stronger self-compassion, which in turn predicted lower burnout. Emotion control changed the strength of that chain: the protective path was stronger in athletes who managed emotions well. Mindfulness showed no simple direct shield against burnout on its own. The authors urge programs that train mindfulness, self-kindness, and emotion skills together to build resilience in combat sports.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zülbiye Kaçay, Emrah Seçer, Özkan Işık, Yunus Şahinler, Laurentiu-Gabriel Talaghir, Mariana Constantinescu, Cristina-Corina Benţea, Teodora Mihaela Iconomescu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |