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Qualitative inquiry of the Singapore environment and motivation of elite athletes: a self-determination perspective

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posted on 2017-03-06, 15:01 authored by Nicholas P. De Cruz, Rebecca Duncombe
With the paucity of research on the motivational processes in elite sport, this qualitative study was undertaken to explore the relationship between specific environmental factors and the motivation of elite Singaporean athletes. Consistent with the principles of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), this study acted as a medium for five current and five former national athletes to provide their personal accounts of elite sport in Singapore based on their lived experiences. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed according to the procedures of IPA to provide an in-depth account of participants’ experiential concerns. Five super-ordinate themes emerged from the data: attraction to sport, support environment, personal sacrifices, organizational obstacles and recommendations for better well-being. These themes provide a subjective account of how participants were involved in sport for their personal satisfaction and, with a strong support environment, were willing to make sacrifices for sport but were impeded by the very organizations in place to support them. For athletes to progress in elite sport, it is recommended that organizations shift their focus on outcomes to the process and development of athletes.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science

Volume

5

Issue

3

Pages

244 - 263

Citation

DE CRUZ, N.P. and DUNCOMBE, R., 2017. Qualitative inquiry of the Singapore environment and motivation of elite athletes: a self-determination perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science, 5 (3), pp.244-263

Publisher

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper is under embargo until 16th May 2018. It is an Accepted Manuscript of the article published by Taylor & Francis in the Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science on 16 Nov 2016 available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1253907

ISSN

2164-0599

eISSN

2164-0602

Language

  • en

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