Mindful Engagement Mediates the Relationship Between Motivational Climate Perceptions and Coachability for Male High School Athletes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Susumu Iwasaki ◽  
Mary D. Fry ◽  
Candace M. Hogue
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
Male High School ◽  
Climate Perceptions ◽  
Mindful Engagement ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of mindful engagement in the relationship between male high school athletes’ motivational climate perceptions on their teams (i.e., caring, task-, and ego-involving climate) to athlete coachability. Athletes (N = 164, Mage = 15.58 years) from multiple sports completed measures assessing mindful engagement in sport (Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale—Revised), Caring Climate Scale, task- and ego-involving climate perceptions (Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire), and coachability (Athletic Coping Skills Inventory). Initial bivariate correlations linked mindful engagement and coachability positively with perceptions of a caring and task-involving climate and negatively with ego-involving climate perceptions. Structural equation modeling analyses then revealed mindful engagement mediated the relationship between climate and coachability. Encouraging coaches and players to foster a caring/task-involving climate might assist in enhancing athletes’ mindful engagement in sport, which may positively influence the degree to which they are coachable.

The Relationship Between the Perceived Motivational Climate in Elite Collegiate Sport and Athlete Psychological Coping Skills

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Mary D. Fry ◽  
Candace M. Hogue ◽  
Susumu Iwasaki ◽  
Gloria B. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Collegiate Sport ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Psychological Coping

Psychological coping skills in sport are believed to be central to athlete performance and well-being. This study examined the relationship between the perceived motivational climate in elite collegiate sport teams and player psychological coping skills use. Division I athletes (N = 467) completed a questionnaire examining their perceptions of how caring, task-, and ego-involving their teams were and their use of sport specific psychological coping skills (i.e., coping with adversity, peaking under pressure, goal setting/mental preparation, concentration, freedom from worry, confidence/achievement motivation, and coachability). Structural equation modeling revealed positive relationships between perceptions of a task-involving climate and confidence/achievement motivation (β = 0.42) and goal setting/mental preparation (β = 0.27). Caring climate perceptions were positively associated with coachability (β = 0.34). These findings illustrate how encouraging athletes and coaches to create a caring, task-involving climate may facilitate athletes’ use of psychological coping skills and set athletes up to perform their best and have a positive sporting experience.

The Influence of Reflected Appraisals on Middle School and High School Athletes’ Self-Perceptions of Sport Competence

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Amorose
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
Reflected Appraisals ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Sport Competence ◽  
Partial Correlations ◽  
Reflected Appraisal

This study examined the reflected appraisal process in female middle school (n = 66; M age = 12.39 – .87 years) and high school athletes (n = 88; M age = 14.70 – 1.08 years). Questionnaires assessed the athletes’ self-perceptions of sport competence and how they perceived their mothers, fathers, coaches, and teammates evaluated their ability in sport. A multiple regression analysis revealed that the various reflected appraisals predicted self-perceptions of competence (p < .01, R2 = .65). Mothers (β = .19), coaches (β = .24), and teammates (β = .47) were each significant predictors, while the reflected appraisal of fathers (β = .08) was non-significant. Squared semi-partial correlations indicated that teammates accounted the greatest amount of unique (sr2 = .25), followed by coaches (sr2 = .08), mothers (sr2 = .05), and fathers (sr2 = .01). Structural equation modeling indicated that the pattern of relationships was the same for middle school and high school athletes.

Relationships between being Traditional and Sense of Gratitude among Taiwanese High School Athletes

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 920-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Hwa Kee ◽  
Ying-Mei Tsai ◽  
Lung Hung Chen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
Collective Group ◽  
Group Members

This study examined the association of scores on measures of traditionality and gratitude. Briefly defined, traditionality refers to how strongly one endorses the traditional value of submission to authority for harmony and benefits in a collective group. Traditional Taiwanese culture is linked with collectivism, and the society tends to encourage members to respect authority and harmony. As people of a collectivistic view seek to maintain harmony within the group, gratitude and reciprocity of good is expected from members. Nevertheless, traditionality of values differs among group members, as is also true for gratitude. It is not known how scores on traditionality might relate to feelings of gratitude among athletes in the competitive sports setting. 289 Taiwanese high school athletes were administered the Sport-domain Gratitude Questionnaire by Chen and Kee and the Traditionality Scale by Kao and Lu. Data, subjected to structural equation modeling, show that traditionality scores were related to those on gratitude. Implications and limitations were discussed.

Goal Orientations, Perceptions of the Motivational Climate, and Perceived Competence of Children with Movement Difficulties

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Causgrove Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
Movement Difficulties ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate ◽  
Mastery Motivational Climate

This study examined the relationships among goal orientations, perceptions of the motivational climate, and perceived competence of children with movement difficulties in Grades 4 to 6. Participants were 65 children (23 boys and 42 girls) with movement difficulties and 111 children (45 boys and 66 girls) without movement difficulties. The latter group was used only in the preliminary analyses investigating validity and reliability of instruments for use in this study. Instruments included a measure of situationally specific perceived competence, a modified version of the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (Duda, 1989), and a modified version of the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire (Seifriz, Duda, & Chi, 1992). Results of structural equation modeling analysis generally supported the hypothesized model of relationships, based on Nicholls’ (1989) achievement goal theory. The findings suggest that physical education classes emphasizing a mastery motivational climate may result in higher perceived competence in children with movement difficulties.

Choosing to study music in high school: Teacher support, psychological needs satisfaction, and elective music intentions

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 781-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Freer ◽  
Paul Evans
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
School Type ◽  
Music Classroom

High school students do not value music education highly, nor do they see it as a useful part of their academic pathways. When music becomes an elective subject, low enrolment in elective classes is seen as a challenge for music educators. This study aimed to further investigate this issue by examining the motivational climate of the music classroom, including the perceptions of the music teacher, in the development of student motivation for music. It also examined how these motivational factors influenced students’ intentions to take music as an elective subject. A hypothesized model based on self-determination theory was tested using structural equation modeling (SEM), based on survey data from N = 395 students from 11 schools. The hypothesized model fit the data well. Students’ basic psychological needs fulfillment was predicted by the perceived needs-supportive practices of their teachers. These in turn were predictive of students’ elective intentions. Using multi-group SEM analyses, findings were invariant across gender, school type, year at school, and socio-economic status, and the role of prior music learning was examined. The results indicate that an effective target for increasing students’ motivation and value for music at school may be the motivational climate of the music classroom.

Measuring Perceived Motivational Climate in Physical Education

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios G. Papaioannou ◽  
Nikolaos Tsigilis ◽  
Eudoxia Kosmidou ◽  
Dimitrios Milosis
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
School Students ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate

A new instrument of motivational climate in physical education is presented with the goal of measuring perceptions of teachers’ emphasis on mastery, performance–approach, performance–avoidance, and social approval goals. The measure was based on the principle of compatibility, according to which climate perceptions and achievement goals should be compatible between each other in terms of target, action domain, life context, and time. The measure was administered to 928 middle school students alongside scales of intrinsic motivation, amotivation, and satisfaction. The statistical analyses included structural equation modeling, investigation of factor correlations, correlation of this measure with intrinsic motivation, satisfaction, and amotivation in physical education and investigation of intraclass correlations. The findings provide evidence of construct validity for the new measure and suggest that mastery and social approval goals can facilitate intrinsic motivation of students.

scholarly journals Perceived Motivational Climates and Doping Intention in Adolescent Athletes: The Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement and Sportspersonship

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Guo ◽  
Wei Liang ◽  
Julien S. Baker ◽  
Zhi-Xiong Mao
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Adolescent Athletes ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Small Effect Size ◽  
Motivational Climates ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate

Doping is an important issue in competitive sports and poses potentially irreversible consequences to athletes. Understanding the psychological process underlying antecedents and doping intention will inform policy and prevention. This study aimed to test the psychosocial mechanisms of doping in adolescent athletes using an integrated model. In this model, we examined the associations of perceived motivational climate (i.e., task-involving and ego-involving), moral variables (i.e., moral disengagement and sportspersonship), and attitudinal variables (i.e., perceived pros/cons of doping and perceived cons of not doping) with doping intention. We further investigated whether the moral variables mediated the relationship between perceived motivational climate and doping intention. A cross-sectional survey was employed in the present study. Six hundred and fifteen Chinese adolescent athletes (mean age = 15.68 ± 1.67 years) completed questionnaires measuring demographic information and the variables mentioned previously. Structural equation modeling showed that the hypothesized model had a good fit and explained 64.1% of the variance in doping intention. Task-involving motivational climate indicated both directly and indirectly negative associations with doping intention via sportspersonship. The ego-involving motivational climate was positively associated with doping intention via moral disengagement. Among perceived pros/cons of doping and perceived cons of not doping, both perceived cons of doping and cons of not doping were positively associated with doping intention with a small effect size. This study confirmed the roles of tasking- and ego-involving motivational climates, moral variables, and attitudinal variables on doping intention. These research findings may provide new insights for the future of intention-based doping prevention programmes.

Strategy and structure of the hotel industry in Malaysia

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Salleh Mohd Radzi ◽  
Mohamed Amran ◽  
Abdul Razak Aziz ◽  
Azlan Supardi
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Strategic Orientation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
Strategy And Structure ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The major purpose ofthis study was to examine the relationship of strategy and structure. Porter s(/980) strategic typology was utilized to classify hotel firms by strategic orientation; and, an analysis of variance was performed to determine the differences in their performance. Structural Equation Modeling was used to confirm the factors underlying the strategy and structure constructs.

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