Implicit Motives, Laterality, Sports Participation and Competition in Gymnasts.

ABSTRACT: The implicit motivational needs for power, achievement, and affiliation are relevant for sports performance. Due to their hypothesized association with functions of the right hemisphere (McClelland, 1986), they may influence lateralized perceptual and motor processes. And due to their interactions with motive-specific incentives, they may influence performance conditional on the presence of suitable incentives. This preregistered study, conducted mostly online, examines motivational needs using a standard picture-story exercise (PSE) and their associations with indicators of perceptual and motor laterality and sports performance in gymnasts (N = 67). Further it explores how implicit motives interact with suitable motivational incentives in the prediction of sports performance. Resul

SUBMITTER: Schutz LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7265554 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature