Athletic identity and autonomous motivation as predictors of endurance performance during high intensity exercise

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

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102872

Ian M. Taylor, Lara Drewes, Dani Fort, George Horne, Stephen Quercia-Smale, Izzy G. Wellings

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Abstract

Purpose

The aims of the present study were a) to develop and test a within-person experimental manipulation of athletic identity salience and autonomous motivation in endurance contexts, and b) to examine whether athletic identity or autonomous motivation better predicted endurance performance via the desire to reduce effort and the value of the performance goal.

Methods

Thirty-seven participants (24 males, 13 females, 20–27 years old) from a sports background completed a brief performance profile activity to identify and evaluate personal characteristics that would help during an endurance task (experimental condition) or described how they maintained close relationships (control condition). After completing measures of athletic identity and autonomous motivation, participants then completed an incrementally difficult cycling test until voluntary termination. The intensity of the test increased every 150 s, with measures of desire to reduce effort and performance goal value taken during each stage.

Results

Multilevel modelling revealed that the experimental manipulation enhanced the salience of athletic identity (b = 05, p = .005), but did not change autonomous motivation (b = .05, p = .21). However, differences in endurance performance were explained by within-person changes in autonomous motivation (b = 31.02, p < .001), but not athletic identity (b = −5.34, p = .58). This direct effect was partially mediated by smaller decreases in the value of the performance goal (z = 3.45, p < .001).

Conclusion

A modified performance profile is useful to experimentally manipulate the salience of athletic identity in endurance contexts. Autonomous motivation enhances endurance performance by minimising reductions in the motivational value of the performance goal.

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运动认同与自主动机作为高强度运动中耐力表现的预测因子。

目的：本研究的目的是：a)开发和测试耐力情境下运动认同显著性和自主动机的个人实验操作；b)检验运动认同或自主动机是否通过减少努力的愿望和表现目标的价值更好地预测耐力表现。方法：37名运动背景的参与者（24名男性，13名女性，20 - 27岁）完成了一项简短的表现描述活动，以确定和评估有助于耐力任务（实验条件）或描述他们如何维持亲密关系（对照组条件）的个人特征。在完成运动员身份和自主动机的测量后，参与者完成了一项难度逐渐增加的自行车测试，直到自愿终止。测试的强度每150秒增加一次，并在每个阶段测量减少努力和性能目标值的愿望。结果：多层次模型显示，实验操作增强了运动身份的显著性（b = 05, p = 0.005），但没有改变自主动机（b = 0.05, p = 0.21）。然而，耐力表现的差异可以用自主动机的个人内部变化来解释（b = 31.02, p < .001），但不能用运动身份来解释（b = -5.34, p = .58）。这种直接影响部分是由性能目标值的较小下降所介导的（z = 3.45, p < .001）。结论：一种改良的运动表现档案有助于在实验上操纵耐力情境下运动身份的显著性。自主激励通过最小化绩效目标的激励价值来提高耐力表现。

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

5.90%

发文量

172

审稿时长

69 days

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