Examining the Relationship Between Athletic Identity and Sport Motivation in Undergraduate Athletes

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott T. Leydig ◽  
Benjamin Greenberg ◽  
Stephen A. Russo
Keyword(s):  
Athletic Identity ◽  
Sport Motivation ◽  
The Relationship

Athletes’ Perceptions of Their Team Motivational Climate, Career Exploration and Engagement, and Athletic Identity

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiira N. Poux ◽  
Mary D. Fry
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Athletic Identity ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Division I ◽  
Sport Teams ◽  
High Level ◽  
Division I Athletes ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between studentathletes’ perceptions of the motivational climate on their sport teams and their own career exploration and engagement and athletic identity. Student-athletes (N = 101) from various National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I institutions were administered online surveys. Canonical correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship between the climate variables (i.e., caring, task, and ego) and athletic identity, career self-efficacy, and career exploration/engagement. One significant function emerged: Perceptions of a high task-involving climate and moderate caring climate were positively associated with athletes’ reporting higher athletic identity, career self-efficacy, and career exploration/engagement. Results suggest that Division I athletes may benefit from having coaches who foster a caring and task-involving team climate with regard to the athletes’ development as holistic individuals who spend their college years performing at a high level of sport and also preparing for their lives after college and sports.

scholarly journals Influence of Sport Motivation on Sport Mental Fatigue: Mediating Effect of Coping Style

2021 ◽  
pp. 304-317
Author(s):  
Li Zhang, Jingyi Xie, Hao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Coping Style ◽  
Mental Fatigue ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Total Effect ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
Sport Motivation ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship

In order to explore the relationship between sport motivation sport mental fatigue, as well as the mediating effect of coping style, a sample of 523 active athletes were recruited to complete sport motivation questionnaire, sport mental fatigue questionnaire and coping inventory for competitive sports. The result indicated that sport motivation negatively predicted the sport mental fatigue. Coping style partially mediated the relationship between sport motivation and sport mental fatigue. The mediating effect accounted for 65% of total effect. Sport motivation and coping style explain the 35% variation of sport mental fatigue. The harm effect of sport mental fatigue on sport motivation could be reduced while the coping style could be improved.

scholarly journals Study of the Concepts of Athletic Identity and Continuous Sport Self-Confidence in the Light of Various Variables

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (13) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Mustafa Önder Şekeroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Athletic Identity ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
National Representation ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Confidence Scale

This study was planned and conducted for the purpose of examining the relationship between the concepts of athletic identity and continuous sport self-confidence within the framework of various variables. The study group is comprised of 125 sportsmen of different branches, located at the Ankara Eryaman Olympics Preparation Centre. Along with a personal information form, the participants were subjected to the "Athletic Identity Scale" developed by Brewer and Cornelius (2001) in order to measure the athletic identity roles, as well as the "Continuous Sport Self-Confidence Scale," which is a sub-dimension of the measurement tool developed by Vealey (1986) in order to assess sport confidence. In this study, while no significant difference was found between the total points for continuous sport self-confidence according to gender, a significant difference was found between the athletic identity points. No statistically significant difference was found between the total points for continuous sport self-confidence and athletic identity according to their branches, number of national representation and their years of sport. In the meanwhile, it was found that 64% of the sportsmen in the research group were satisfied with their relations with their parents, while 52% were satisfied with their relations with their friends. It was found that 40% of the sportsmen were satisfied with how they used their spare time, and 48% were satisfied with their success in their studies.

Winning With Personality: Underscoring Antecedents for College Students’ Motives for Team Identification

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Brown-Devlin ◽  
Michael B. Devlin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Team Identification ◽  
Athletic Departments ◽  
Sport Motivation ◽  
Sport Fans ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Relationship

While collegiate athletic departments seek new ways to engage fans, this study proposes a novel approach for understanding sport fans’ motivations by examining how they moderate the relationship between one’s psychological personality traits and one’s level of team identification. Coupling underlying personality traits to subsequent motivations for team identification provides unique psychographics about the target audience, which may assist marketing professionals by revealing which type of people are drawn to sport, and more importantly, why. College students from three universities were surveyed, and results suggest sport fans’ motivations and team identities both exist due to underlying personality traits, thus advancing sport motivation research while simultaneously examining the role of personality in sport-related behaviors.

scholarly journals Investigating correlates of athletic identity and sport-related injury outcomes: a scoping review

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. e044199
Author(s):  
Tian Renton ◽  
Brian Petersen ◽  
Sidney Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Injury Severity ◽  
Athletic Identity ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Injury Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship

ObjectivesTo conduct a scoping review that (1) describes what is known about the relationship between athletic identity and sport-related injury outcomes and (2) describes the relationship that an injury (as an exposure) has on athletic identity (as an outcome) in athletes.DesignScoping review.ParticipantsA total of n=1852 athletes from various sport backgrounds and levels of competition.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe primary measure used within the studies identified was the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale. Secondary outcome measures assessed demographic, psychosocial, behavioural, physical function and pain-related constructs.ResultsTwenty-two studies were identified for inclusion. Samples were dominated by male, Caucasian athletes. The majority of studies captured musculoskeletal injuries, while only three studies included sport-related concussion. Athletic identity was significantly and positively associated with depressive symptom severity, sport performance traits (eg, ego-orientation and mastery-orientation), social network size, physical self-worth, motivation, rehabilitation overadherence, mental toughness and playing through pain, as well as injury severity and functional recovery outcomes. Findings pertaining to the association that an injury (as an exposure) had on athletic identity (as an outcome) were inconsistent and limited.ConclusionsAthletic identity was most frequently associated with psychosocial, behavioural and injury-specific outcomes. Future research should seek to include diverse athlete samples (eg, women, athletes of different races, para-athletes) and should continue to reference theoretical injury models to inform study methodologies and to specify variables of interest for further exploration.

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