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- Title
Conceptions of Ability and Self-Determined Motivation in Young Spanish Athletes.
- Authors
Moreno-Murcia, Juan Antonio; Gimeno, Eduardo Cervelló; Galindo, Celestina Martínez; Hernández, Elisa Huéscar; Buñuel, Pedro Sáenz-López
- Abstract
This investigation examined the relationship between implicit ability beliefs and self-determined motivation. The sample was comprised of 775 young athletes between the ages of 12 and 17 competing at national level in Spain. The participants completed the Spanish version of the Conceptions of the Nature of Athletic Ability Questionnaire (CNAAQ-2) and the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS). The results revealed a positive and significant correlation between stable ability beliefs and learning ability, and between self-determined motivation and perceived sports ability. To the contrary, stable entity beliefs were negatively correlated with self-determined motivation. Competitiveness in sports was significantly predicted by self-determined motivation, and the latter, in its turn, was positively predicted by learning belief and negatively by stable entity beliefs.
- Subjects
SPANISH athletes; INTRINSIC motivation; AUTONOMY (Psychology); LEARNING ability; SPORTS psychology; COMPETITION (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Psicologia: Reflexão e Critica, 2014, Vol 27, Issue 3, p515
- ISSN
0102-7972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1678-7153.201427312