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A longitudinal examination of coach and peer motivational climates in youth sport: implications for moral attitudes, well-being, and behavioral investment

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posted on 2014-07-29, 08:28 authored by Nikos Ntoumanis, Ian TaylorIan Taylor, Cecilie Thogersen-Ntoumani
Embedded in achievement goal theory (Ames, 1992; Meece, Anderman & Anderman, 2006), this study examined how perceptions of coach and peer motivational climate in youth sport predicted moral attitudes, emotional well-being, and indices of behavioral investment in a sample of British adolescents competing in regional leagues. Adopting a longitudinal perspective, measures were taken at the middle and the end of a sport season, as well as at the beginning of the following season. Multilevel modeling analyses showed that perceptions of task-involving peer and coach climates were predictive of more adaptive outcomes compared to perceptions of ego-involving peer and coach climates. Predictive effects differed as a function of time and outcome variable under investigation. The results indicate the importance of considering peer influence in addition to coach influence when examining motivational climate in youth sport.

Funding

This study was supported by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation (SGS/36273) awarded to [N. Ntoumanis and C. Thøgersen-Ntoumani].

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Volume

48

Issue

1

Pages

213 - 223 (11)

Citation

NTOUMANIS, N., TAYLOR, I.M. and THOGERSEN-NTOUMANI, C., 2012. A longitudinal examination of coach and peer motivational climates in youth sport: implications for moral attitudes, well-being, and behavioral investment. Developmental Psychology, 48 (1), pp. 213-223.

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© American Psychological Association

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2012

Notes

This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.

ISSN

0012-1649

eISSN

1939-0599

Language

  • en

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