Pick your battles: Elite ski-jumpers’ motives affect world cup performance depending on competition type

IF 3.1 2区心理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2024.102749

Florian Müller, Stephan Hocke, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland

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Abstract

According to motive disposition theory, athletes high in affiliation motivation should find team contexts more rewarding than individual contexts, and hence perform better in team than in individual competitions. The opposite is predicted for athletes high in power motivation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to test these hypotheses in an elite sample (here: ski jumping athletes) based on archived worldcup competition data from both individual and team competitions on the one hand, and self-reported and projectively assessed motives on the other hand. Results confirmed that even at the highest levels of professional sports, individual differences in motives show systematic relationships to competition performance. First, the negative impact of athletes' projectively assessed affiliation motive in individual competitions was significantly attenuated in team competitions, indicating that these represent more favorable conditions for athletes high in affiliation. Second, the projectively assessed power motive exhibited an overall negative relationship to performance. In contrast, self-reported achievement and affiliation motives showed a positive relationship to performance. These findings attest to the role of personality differences in predicting motor performance variability in elite sports.

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选择你的战斗：精英跳台滑雪运动员的动机会影响世界杯成绩，这取决于比赛类型。

根据动机倾向理论，从属动机高的运动员应该认为团队环境比个人环境更有价值，因此在团队比赛中比在个人比赛中表现得更好。而对权力动机高的运动员的预测则恰恰相反。据我们所知，这是第一项在精英样本（此处为跳台滑雪运动员）中测试这些假设的研究，研究一方面基于个人和团队比赛的世界冠军比赛存档数据，另一方面基于自我报告和投射评估动机。结果证实，即使是在最高水平的职业体育比赛中，动机的个体差异也会与比赛成绩产生系统性的关系。首先，运动员投射评估的从属动机在个人比赛中的负面影响在团体比赛中明显减弱，这表明团体比赛对从属动机高的运动员更为有利。其次，投射评估的权力动机与成绩总体呈负相关。相比之下，自我报告的成就动机和从属动机与成绩呈正相关。这些研究结果证明了人格差异在预测精英体育运动成绩变异方面的作用。

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

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6.40

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5.90%

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172

审稿时长

69 days

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