Abstract
Psychological variables, such as perceived motivational climate, goal orientation, self-determined motivation, and personality, have an influence on sports success performance. This study aimed to examine the relationships among a set of psychological variables (perceived motivational climate, goal orientation, self-determined motivation, and personality) in male and female footballers. Participants were 167 footballers (106 male, 61 female), aged 12 to 26, competing with clubs in the Spanish Football League. They all took four questionnaires aimed at evaluating motivational climate, goal orientations, self-determined motivation, and personality. The analyses of correlation and regression showed statistically significant relations among the variables. Neuroticism and psychoticism negatively relate to mastery motivational climate, the best predictor of self-determined motivation. It was concluded that contextual variables carry more weight in predicting goal orientations and self-determined motivation among participant footballers.
Highlights
We found that psychoticism and neuroticism were positively related to the execution climate and goal orientation towards the ego, whereas both negatively predicted a mastery climate [36]
The results indicated that both mastery climate and execution climate could predict self-determination index (SDI), thereby leading to the conclusion that the contextual variables had greater weight in the relationship
The team environmental and leadership variables will configure a type of goal orientation and affect additional personality factors
Summary
Res. Psychology has developed and consolidated its presence in the spectrum of the practice of competitive, professional, and amateur sports, and with it, the growth in the analysis of psychological variables in the sports context [1,2]. Motivation and its relation with sports performance have attracted the interest of numerous researchers [3], with respect to the reasons individuals pursue certain goals [4]
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