Coaching turnover has significant implications for both athletic organizations and athletes. This study examined how the two distinctive types of passion were associated with turnover intention among high school athletic coaches. Moreover, this study used emotional exhaustion as an underlying mechanism in the relationship between passion and turnover intention. A total of 358 athletic coaches in the United States participated in the online survey assessing their levels of harmonious passion, obsessive passion, emotional exhaustion, and turnover intention. The results revealed that emotional exhaustion was negatively linked to harmonious passion but positively linked to obsessive passion. Emotional exhaustion, in turn, was positively linked to turnover intention. Additionally, this study found the indirect effect of emotional exhaustion in both passions-turnover intention relationship. The results of this study highlighted the significant roles of different types of passion in athletic coaches’ wellbeing and turnover intention.
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