Goal motives and multiple-goal striving in sport and academia: a person-centered investigation of goal motives and inter-goal relations

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Healy, L.C. ORCID: 0000-0003-1372-7308, Ntoumanis, N. and Duda, J.L., 2016. Goal motives and multiple-goal striving in sport and academia: a person-centered investigation of goal motives and inter-goal relations. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 19 (12), pp. 1010-1014. ISSN 1440-2440

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2016.03.001

Abstract

Objectives: This investigation extended the goal striving literature by examining motives for two goals being pursued simultaneously. Specifically, it examined how student athletes’ autonomous and controlled motives for their sporting and academic goals were associated with inter-goal facilitation and interference.
Design: Cross-sectional survey.
Methods: Student athletes (n = 204) from universities in the United Kingdom identified their most important sporting and academic goals. They then rated their autonomous and controlled motives for these goals and completed questionnaires assessing inter-goal facilitation and interference.
Results: Using a person-centered approach via latent class analysis, we identified three distinct classes of goal motives. Group difference analyses showed that the classes with higher autonomous motives reported greater facilitation from their academic goal to their sporting goal.
Conclusions: Extending the previous literature, the findings demonstrate the benefits of autonomous motives when simultaneously pursing goals in sport and academia.

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Journal article

Publication Title:

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

Creators:

Healy, L.C., Ntoumanis, N. and Duda, J.L.

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Elsevier Australia

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December 2016

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