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The direction and intensity of effort.
Direction = what you seek out, want or desire.
Intensity: How much effort you put into a situation. |
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Autonomous Competence Stage: Motivated to learn on your own (internal)
Social Comparison Stage: Motivated to beat or compete with others (external).
Integrated Stage- Balance of both self and social (internal + external). |
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| Social approval and its role in team sports |
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| The best players all on one team don't always make the best team. Certain factors like personality, shared goals and the ability to be a team player can take priority over being mechanically great. |
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| Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation |
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Intrinsic Motivation: Internal. Personal satisfaction that comes from the love of the game, fun and enjoyment of competition and personal satisfaction. Allows for feelings of competence and autonomy (in control).
Extrinsic Motivation: External. To compete for reasons outside of personal enjoyment. Can decrease intrinsic motivation. |
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| Task vs outcome orientation |
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Task Orientation (Mastery): Focuses on skill improvement and improving on past performances (intrinsic). One's ability is in their on control, and is associated with work ethic and repetitions. Strengths include reducing the importance of winning and losing and not being scared to fail, but can't always measure your success level.
Outcome orientation (ego): Performance is influenced by competition against others (extrinsic). Wanting to reach the highest levels of the sport (ego). Can be statistics driven. Strengths include being able to measure results and brings out competitiveness, but often leads to only being concerned with winning/losing and can focus on things out of your control. |
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Includes self-determination theory, attribution theory and situational factors.
Self-Determination Theory: Three human innate needs/motives are competence, (knowledge, mastery of skill), relatedness, (relationships with others,) and autonomy, (in control of self and future).
Attribution Theory: How to explain your successes and failures. Includes stable, unstable, internal, external, in control and out of control reasoning.
Situational Factors: High achievers find 50/50 chances offer more incentive. Low achievers tend to lose to evenly matched opponents. |
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