📌 TL;DR: Estudio de correlación sobre factores de la motivación y relación entrenador-atleta en el rendimiento deportivo.
🔬 Puntos clave:
- Factores psicológicos como burnout, motivación y perfeccionismo son los más estudiados.
- La relación entre entrenadores y atletas es crucial para la motivación.
- Se identificaron 41 factores correlacionados con el rendimiento deportivo.
🎯 Aplicación clínica para LATAM:
En América Latina, especialmente en Panamá, este hallazgo puede guiar la implementación de programas de prevención y tratamiento de burnout, así como mejorar relaciones entre entrenadores y atletas para promover un mejor rendimiento deportivo.
⚠ Limitaciones:
El estudio se centró principalmente en factores psicológicos y no incluyó otros aspectos clave del rendimiento deportivo.
Background
Athlete engagement represents a critical construct for understanding optimal athletic functioning, yet the field lacks comprehensive theoretical models integrating its diverse correlates. While previous research has identified various factors influencing engagement, no systematic synthesis exists mapping all empirical evidence across populations, languages, and sporting contexts. This scoping review addresses this critical gap by providing the first comprehensive, systematic synthesis of all factors associated with athlete engagement, establishing the foundational evidence base necessary for theoretical model development and evidence-based interventions.
Methods
The review follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines, Arksey and O'Malley's five stages and the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. A comprehensive search was carried out in seven databases and 1428 papers were retrieved. After removing duplicates and applying eligibility criteria, 70 studies were assessed for eligibility. After removing papers of poor quality, unavailable papers and papers investigating other types of engagement, 48 papers published between 2007 and 2024 were selected for analysis.
Results
The majority of these papers were quantitative and cross-sectional, using the Athlete Engagement Questionnaire to measure athlete engagement. The review identified 41 correlates of athlete engagement, categorised as antecedents, consequences, mediators or related variables. Psychological factors, such as burnout, motivation, perfectionism and the coach-athlete relationship, were the most commonly studied.
Conclusions
The results highlight the significant role of burnout, motivation, perfectionism and the coach-athlete relationship in enhancing engagement and emphasise the importance of developing training programmes that address these factors in order to promote athlete engagement.
Registration
The following scoping review was appropriately registered on the Open Science Framework ( https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TWNZM ).
Cómo citar:
De Francisco C, Scurtu MC, Vílchez MP. (2026).
What Is Known About Athlete Engagement: A Scoping Review.. Sports medicine - open.
DOI: 10.1186/s40798-026-00975-5 ↗ PMID: 41593288 ↗ Acceso al paper: Ver completo ↗
