An Adaptation Study of Sport Burnout Inventory into Turkish Culture and its Psychometric Properties

The purpose of this study to make an adaptation of Sport Burnout Inventory to the Turkish culture which is developed in order to examine the burnout of students studying in sport sciences. For this purpose, Sport Burnout Inventory developed by Sorkkila, Ryba, Aunola, Sel？nne & Salmela-Aro (2017) which consists of 10 items and three sub-dimensions has been adapted to Turkish and validity and reliability studies have been done. Data gathered from 250 university students (98 of them 39.2% are women and 152 of them 60.8% are men) studying in physical education and sports. The construct validity of the inventory was tested by CFA and the validity of the model was evaluated with fit indices. The goodness of fit indices calculated for the inventory are χ2/df= 3.21; RMSEA= .094; GFI= .91; AGFI= .84; CFI= .95, IFI= .95; NFI= .92 and NNFI= .92 respectively. Convergent validity and discriminant validity studies of the instrument were also done by using Beck Depression Inventory and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale with calculating relationships between for each. In addition, Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient was calculated to determine the reliability level of the inventory and it is found 0.81 for overall score, 0.61 for exhaustion, 0.69 for cynicism and 0.61 for inadequacy sub-dimensions. It can be said that SBI is a valid and reliable measurement tool to measure the levels of sports burnout of university students studying in the field of sports. The findings were discussed in the light of the related literature and suggestions were made to the practitioners, future researchers and the field of mental health