There are, however, some aspects that need to be considered when evaluating our findings. First, the data are cross-sectional and, as such, causality cannot be inferred. Nevertheless, our findings support Sagar et al.’s (2009) assertion that fear of failure might be associated with high risk of burnout in athletes because athletes with high levels of fear of failure typically display symptoms of burnout such as emotional/ physical exhaustion. Second, the levels of burnout, also for the high fear of failure group, might be interpreted by some as moderate (M = 3.00). This corresponds to “sometimes” on the ABQ response scale (Raedeke & Smith, 2009). These levels might seem low, but have tentatively been viewed as “high” levels of burnout by researchers (Eklund & Cresswell, 2007). Hodge et al. (2008) suggested that a score of 2.30 on the emotional/physical exhaustion scale is considered “high” due to the fact that this was one standard deviation above the “low burnout” group found in Raedeke’s (1997) study of swimmers.