Passion and performance attainment in sport

Vallerand, Robert J.; Mageau, Geneviève A.; Elliot, Andrew J.; Dumais, Alexandre; Demers, Marc-Andre; Rousseau, François

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2007.05.003

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“…The Passion Scale is a widely used measure of passion for various activities and has demonstrated reliability and validity in numerous studies (e.g., Vallerand et al, 2003Vallerand et al, , 2008; see also Vallerand, 2008Vallerand, , 2010.…”

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“…Research on harmonious and obsessive passion has investigated passion in various domains such as work, sports, dance, music, gambling, and digital gaming (e.g., Carbonneau, Vallerand, Fernet, & Guay, 2008;Ratelle, Vallerand, Mageau, Rousseau, & Provencher, 2004;Rip, Fortin, & Vallerand, 2006;Vallerand et al, 2003Vallerand et al, , 2008Wang, Khoo, Liu, & Divaharan, 2008). Overall, findings show that harmonious passion tends to be associated with positive characteristics, processes, and outcomes (e.g., positive emotions).…”

Section: Passion and Motivation For Studying: Predicting Academic Engmentioning

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Passion and motivation for studying: predicting academic engagement and burnout in university students

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Section: Passion and Motivation For Studying: Predicting Academic Engmentioning

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Passion and motivation for studying: predicting academic engagement and burnout in university students

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“…According to Vallerand, the difference between self-determined motivation and harmonious passion comes down to how the activity is self-defining. Passion is directed particularly towards identity-defining activities such as professional sports and music (Bonneville-Roussy et al 2011;Vallerand et al 2008), while self-determined motivation is not.…”

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“…Young competitive water-polo and synchronized swimming athletes were asked to join an experiment (Vallerand et al 2008). These athletes were high-level performers; at the time of this study, they had been engaged in their sport very seriously.…”

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“…Swimmers who engaged in deliberate practices were more likely to be judged as having better performed by their coaches at the end of the season. The researchers maintain that by holding harmonious passion, these swimmers did not experience the need to compare themselves to others, and did not have internal or external pressure to practice, known as maladaptive for high-quality performances (Vallerand et al 2008).…”

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Situationism, virtue epistemology, and self-determination theory

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2018

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Situationists (e.g., Doris in Lack of character: personality and moral behavior, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002; Harman in Proc Aristot Soc 99:315-331, 1999. https://doi.org/10.2307/4545312), with reference to empirical work in psychology, have called into question the predictive and explanatory power of character traits and on this basis have criticized the empirical adequacy of moral virtue. More recently, Alfano (Philos Q 62(247):223-249, 2012; Character as moral fiction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013) has extended the situationist critique from virtue ethics to virtue epistemology. On the line he advances, virtue responsibilism-the view that intellectual character traits play an important part in traditional and untraditional epistemological inquiries-is criticized as empirically inadequate in light of the extent to which individuals are shown to be susceptible to seemingly trivial and epistemically irrelevant situational influences. Alfano's attempted redeployment of the situationist challenge to virtue responsibilism is on closer inspection not as straightforward as he claims. It is granted that the empirical adequacy of virtue responsibilism will be eventually threatened if it can be shown that virtuous motivation is, in light of situational factors, causally ineffective. As it turns out, various psychological studies which situationists have overlooked, suggest that virtuous motivation is causally efficacious in a way that favours the position of the virtue responsibilist over the situationist. In the first part of this paper, I outline the hard core of virtue theory: both a rich motivation requirement, and a commitment to the inherent relation between virtue and a good life; then I assess whether these are undermined by situationist criticism. I address the confusion of the existing debate, and the conclusion drawn is that virtue theory ultimately remains unscathed. In the second part of my 123Synthese paper I defend the empirical adequacy of virtue theory based on self-determination theory. When we afford closer attention to studies on the orientation of our motivation, it becomes clear how the dynamics of our motivation have a tremendous influence on desirable behavioural outcomes: a good life.

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Theory and Research in Passion for Sport and Exercise

Vallerand

Verner‐Filion

2020

Handbook of Sport Psychology

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Passion and performance attainment in sport

Cited by 306 publications

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Passion and motivation for studying: predicting academic engagement and burnout in university students

Passion and motivation for studying: predicting academic engagement and burnout in university students

Situationism, virtue epistemology, and self-determination theory

Theory and Research in Passion for Sport and Exercise

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