Achievement motivation as it applies to competitive sport

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

3 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

07/28/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Psychology

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Summary :

Introduction
Hong Kong study of high school aged students
The reasons the subjects participated in sports
Level of performance orientation
Studies conducted in Norway
Implications for coaching
Conclusions
References

Abstract

An important psychological need is the need to achieve: the motive to achieve success by exceeding previous levels of success set by one's self and/or others. achievement motivation can be characterized as both the need to achieve and as the need to avoid failure. The purpose of this paper is to delve into different empirical studies conducted on the concept of achievement motivation as it applies to competitive sport. The following studies compare relationships between task orientation (need to achieve) and ego orientation (need to avoid failure) to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, how achievement motivation changes over time, and how achievement motivation affects the amount of involvement in sporting activities and the success of athletes in sporting competition.

In a Hong Kong study of high school aged students, researchers sought to study the relationships between motivation orientations and intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. They hypothesized that people who are more task oriented are intrinsically motivated and that people who are more ego oriented are more extrinsically motivated (Sit & Koenraad, 2004). The subjects were high school students (742 boys, 493 girls) who reported participating in competitive and recreational sports. A Participation motivation Inventory was used to identify the subjects' motives for participating in sports. They were given reasons for participation and they were asked to scale their responses from 1 (not important) to 3 (very important).