Morality in sport: A self-determination theory perspective
This study used a sample of 314 British athletes (170 male, 144 female) to examine whether social-contextual and personal motivation variables proposed by self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002) can predict reported levels of sportspersonship and antisocial moral attitudes in sport. Struct...
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| author | Ntoumanis, Nikos Standage, M. |
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| description | This study used a sample of 314 British athletes (170 male, 144 female) to examine whether social-contextual and personal motivation variables proposed by self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002) can predict reported levels of sportspersonship and antisocial moral attitudes in sport. Structural equation modeling analysis showed that perceptions of coach autonomy support were positive predictors of athletes' satisfaction of their psychological needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy. In turn, the three needs were positive predictors of autonomous motivation. Autonomous motivation positively predicted sportspersonship and negatively predicted antisocial moral attitudes in sport. The opposite pattern of results was observed between controlled motivation and the sportspersonship and antisocial moral attitudes variables. The findings emphasize the importance of autonomy supportive environments, psychological need satisfaction, and autonomous motivation for fostering sportspersonship in sport. © Association for Applied Sport Psychology. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-478062017-09-13T14:19:01Z Morality in sport: A self-determination theory perspective Ntoumanis, Nikos Standage, M. This study used a sample of 314 British athletes (170 male, 144 female) to examine whether social-contextual and personal motivation variables proposed by self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002) can predict reported levels of sportspersonship and antisocial moral attitudes in sport. Structural equation modeling analysis showed that perceptions of coach autonomy support were positive predictors of athletes' satisfaction of their psychological needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy. In turn, the three needs were positive predictors of autonomous motivation. Autonomous motivation positively predicted sportspersonship and negatively predicted antisocial moral attitudes in sport. The opposite pattern of results was observed between controlled motivation and the sportspersonship and antisocial moral attitudes variables. The findings emphasize the importance of autonomy supportive environments, psychological need satisfaction, and autonomous motivation for fostering sportspersonship in sport. © Association for Applied Sport Psychology. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47806 10.1080/10413200903036040 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | Ntoumanis, Nikos Standage, M. Morality in sport: A self-determination theory perspective |
| title | Morality in sport: A self-determination theory perspective |
| title_full | Morality in sport: A self-determination theory perspective |
| title_fullStr | Morality in sport: A self-determination theory perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Morality in sport: A self-determination theory perspective |
| title_short | Morality in sport: A self-determination theory perspective |
| title_sort | morality in sport: a self-determination theory perspective |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47806 |