Goal orientation and well-being in college athletes: The importance of athletic social connectedness
| Autor: | Heidi A. Wayment, Andrew S. Walters |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Social connectedness 050109 social psychology Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Interpersonal communication Structural equation modeling Developmental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Id ego and super-ego Humans Interpersonal Relations 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Ego Motivation biology Goal orientation Athletes 05 social sciences 030229 sport sciences biology.organism_classification Well-being Female Construct (philosophy) Psychology Goals Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sports Sciences. 35:2114-2120 |
| ISSN: | 1466-447X 0264-0414 |
| Popis: | The present study examined the ability of an interpersonal construct called athletic connectedness to mediate the relationship between task and ego goal orientations and well-being. We operationalised athletic social connectedness as a sense of social belonging and sense of connection with teammates. We hypothesised that athletic social connectedness would be positively associated with task goals, negatively associated with ego goals, and would at least partially mediate the relationship between achievement goals and well-being. We administered questionnaires to female (N = 106; mean age = 20.47, SD = 1.12) and male (N = 100; mean age = 20.95, SD = 1.21) NCAA Division III college athletes. We tested our hypothesised model using structural equation modelling, which included testing a measurement model that specified four latent variables and then comparing the estimates generated by our hypothesised model with our data. We also tested three alternative models and found our hypothesised model to fit best. As predicted, there were significant indirect effects of task and ego motivation on well-being through athletic connectedness, demonstrating formal evidence of mediation. The r |
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