Self-regulation and performance among elite youth soccer players: the role of approach-avoidance motivation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and methods

This study aimed to investigate the motivational processes behind self-regulated learning and performance among 192 soccer players (82 girls) for three age groups (14-16 years old) eligible for the Norwegian national football team. A conditional process model was proposed and tested with achievement goals as mediators between achievement motives on the one hand and coach-reported performance and self-regulated learning on the other hand. The probability of success was examined as a potential moderator in the motivational process.

Results

As predicted, motives to achieve success directly influenced planning and reflection/evaluation, whereas the influence of the success motive on regulation of effort was explained partly by task- and self-based approa

SUBMITTER: Hamoud M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11514363 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature