Intrinsic Motivation Predicting Performance Satisfaction in Athletes: Further Psychometric Evaluations of the Sport Motivation Scale-6

Abstract

The study investigated psychometric properties of the Sport Motivation Scale-6 (SMS-6), assessing intrinsic regulation, four extrinsic regulation constructs, and amotivation among athletes competing at a regional and national level. In particular, we tested the factorial structure of SMS-6, its short-term stability, and the associations of SMS-6 constructs with self-efficacy, self-esteem, motivational climate, and satisfaction with sport performance. Participants were 197 athletes (57.4% women), representing team (54.7%) and individual disciplines. The measurement was repeated at the three-week follow-up (n = 107). Results yielded support for the six first-order factor structure (three second-order factors). More autonomous forms of motivation were related to higher levels of self-efficacy, performance satisfaction, and taskoriented motivational climate in sport organizations. Sequential multiple mediation analysis showed that the association between general self-efficacy and performance satisfaction at a follow-up was mediated by introjected regulation and personal-barrier self-efficacy.

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“…Siguiendo con la secuencia, los gradientes de la motivación autodeterminada también se han asociado con los indicadores de bienestar y malestar. Por ejemplo, los indicadores de bienestar se han asociado positivamente con la motivación autónoma (Cantú-Berrueto et al, 2016;Fenton et al, 2016;Gutiérrez-García et al, 2019;Mosqueda et al, 2019;Zanatta et al, 2018); motivación autodeterminada (Barbosa-Luna et al, 2017;Castillo et al, 2017;Stenling et al, 2015) y la motivación intrínseca (Álvarez et al, 2012;Blecharz et al, 2015;Lonsdale et al, 2008;Young-Moo et al, 2018); mientras que, de forma negativa con la motivación controlada (Haerens et al, 2018), motivación externa (Lonsdale et al, 2008; y no motivación (Carpentier & Mageau, 2013;Lonsdale et al, 2008;Zanatta et al, 2018). Los indicadores de malestar se han asociado positivamente con la motivación controlada (Haerens et al, 2018;Barcza-Renner et al, 2016), motivación externa (Lonsdale et al, 2008; y no motivación (Barcza-Renner et al, 2016;Lonsdale et al, 2008;; mientras que, de forma negativa con la motivación autónoma (Barcza-Renner et al, 2016;Haerens et al, 2018;López-Walle et al, 2018;Tristán et al, 2018); motivación autodeterminada (Gagné et al, 2003) y la motivación intrínseca (Amado et al, 2015;Lonsdale et al, 2008;.…”