The Effect of Self- Forgiveness Training on Sports Burnout Among Adolescent Female Soccer Players

Objective: Forgiveness is one of the concepts recently introduced in positive psychology, aimed at enhancing individual talents when facing challenges. Athletes use forgiveness as a way to reduce negative factors and emotions. The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of self-forgiveness training on the sports burnout of female soccer players.Methods: The study employed a quasi-experimental design. Soccer players (N = ۲۸) were purposively and voluntarily selected, and then randomly divided into either an experimental or control condition. Pre-tests showed that the two groups had similar scores on the Heartland Forgiveness Questionnaire (HFS) and Raedeke and Smith's Attrition Analysis Questionnaire. Self-forgiveness training was provided only to the experimental group in three sessions per week, each lasting half an hour, for two weeks. Post-test questionnaires were completed by both groups. Data were analyzed using paired and independent t-tests in SPSS software version ۲۷ at a significance level of ۰.۰۵.Results: At post-test, players in the experimental condition scored higher than did those in the control condition on self-forgiveness, suggesting that the intervention had its desired effect (p=۰.۰۰۱). Also at post-test, players in the experimental condition scored higher on the subscale of Devaluation in sports Physical-emotional disability (Burnout) than did players in the control condition (p=۰.۰۰۸). However, on the subscale of feeling of reduced performance the players in each condition did not differ. Conclusion: Self-forgiveness training affected players’ sports burnout. The implications are that coaches pay special attention to self-forgiveness training in order to improve the player's mental health.

کلیدواژه ها:

Forgiveness in Sport ، Self-Forgiveness ، burnout ، Soccer Players