INTRODUCTION Using self-determination theory as the theoretical framework, we conducted a longitudinal investigation of the relationships between motivation and athlete burnout. We tested four hypotheses: H0: low self-determination (SD) does not precede burnout, and burnout does not precede low SD; H1: low SD precedes burnout; H2: burnout precedes low SD; and H3: burnout and motivation have a r...

In this study we examined the interrelationship among extrinsic rewards and achievement goals (including a work-avoidance goal), competence beliefs, and task values associated with health-enhancing running tasks over a school year. A group of elementary school students (n = 119) from a program that promoted running for running’s sake and another (n = 88) from a program that promoted running thr...

The aim of this study was to identify school motivation profiles Dutch 9th grade students in a four-dimensional space, including mastery, performance, social and extrinsic motivation....

the aim of this study was to predict expert archers’ performance on the basis of psychological factors such as arousal, activation, anxiety, motivation and personality characteristics with an emphasis on extraversion / introversion dimension. in this predictive correlation study, 34 expert archers were randomly selected as the sample of the study out of the archers of national team (statistical...

In previous studies, Self-referential tasks were set in a firstperson perspective, which did not allow an examination of the influence of perspectives on the evaluation of self and others. The objective of the present research is to examine the changes in the physiological correlates of self/other-evaluation based on perspectives, by adding a perspective variable to the previous self-referentia...

Past research investigating the role of motivation in creativity has closely examined the role of intrinsic (i.e., process-focused) and extrinsic (i.e., outcome-focused) motivation. Results from this literature have shown that the effects of social factors on creativity (e.g., social inhibition or facilitation effects) are at least partially explained by their effect on intrinsic and extrinsic ...

In previous studies, Self-referential tasks were set in a firstperson perspective, which did not allow an examination of the influence of perspectives on the evaluation of self and others. The objective of the present research is to examine the changes in the physiological correlates of self/other-evaluation based on perspectives, by adding a perspective variable to the previous self-referentia...