Self-Regulation of Performance: Goal Establishment and Goal Revision Processes in Athletes

Williams, Kevin J.; Donovan, John J.; Dodge, Tonya

doi:10.1207/s15327043hup1302_3

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“…Research exploring athletes' personal goals has demonstrated that attributing success to the self (typically a controllable attribution) is associated with upward goal revision (higher performance goals) whereas attributing failure to the self is associated with downward goal revision (lower performance goals) (Donovan & Williams, 2003;Tolli & Schmidt, 2008;Williams, Donovan, & Dodge, 2000). We might expect similar effects to emerge in team sport with perceptions of team controllability, and interactions featuring controllability and generalisability dimensions, contributing to upward and downward goal revisions in team goals.…”

Section: Cognitive Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 92%

A theoretical framework and research agenda for studying team attributions in sport

Allen

Coffee

Greenlees

2012

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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The attributions made for group outcomes have attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. In this article we bring together much of the current research on attribution theory in sport and outline a new conceptual framework and research agenda for investigating the attributions of team members. The proposed framework draws on multiple conceptual approaches including models of attribution, group dynamics and stress responses to provide a detailed hypothetical description of athletes' physiological, cognitive and affective responses to group competition. In describing this model we outline important antecedents of team attributions before hypothesising how attributions can impact hormonal and cardiovascular responses of athletes, together with cognitive (goals, choices, expectations), affective (selfesteem, emotions), and behavioural (approach-avoidance actions) responses of groups and group members. We conclude by outlining important methodological considerations and implications for structured context specific attribution-based interventions.

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Section: Cognitive Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 92%

A theoretical framework and research agenda for studying team attributions in sport

Allen

Coffee

Greenlees

2012

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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“…Visual spatial skills and simple reaction time have been found to discriminate between athletes with and without ID ( Van-Biesen, 2010) and within the mainstream literature a number of discrete cognitive skills are also showing evidence of being able to discriminate between experienced and less experienced players (e.g. memory (Williams, Donovan, & Dodge, 2000), reaction time (Brooks, Boleach, & Mayhew, 1987), visual spatial abilities (Kasahara, (2008)). Both this work with athletes with ID and with mainstream athletes suggest that specific types of cognitive profiles may be implicated in the high level performance of sports, and the isolation of specific types of cognitive skills may be linked to the tactical and technical abilities required in different sports.…”

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confidence: 99%

The impact of intellectual disabilities on elite sports performance

Burns

2015

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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Athletes with intellectual disabilities (ID) were re-introduced into the Paralympics in London 2012. As part of this development a classification system had to be established evidencing the impact this impairment has on elite sports performance. This review examines the research behind this issue.Firstly it examines the limited literature comparing the standards reached by top-level athletes with ID with those without disabilities, and then moves on to look at the research demonstrating differences in both the cognitive and physical skills needed for elite performance. The paper then reviews the factors which may be implicated to account for this disparity, from a range of perspectives. A case is made for the importance of looking at this area in terms of the potential for the transferability of research findings from this group to talent identification in mainstream athletes and the benefits of integrating neuropsychological concepts and approaches to understanding the cognitive components behind the development of particular skills associated with high level performance in specific sports. Keywords: Intellectual disabilities, Paralympics, elite performance, cognitive functioning ContextThe place of sport and exercise in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) has attracted much research in recent years. Much of this has focused on sport and exercise as remedial or preventative activity to combat specific health issues such as obesity and poor physical health. Other research has looked more at the psychosocial impact of improving social networks (Hutzler & Korsensky, 2010) or psychological factors such as increasing self-esteem (Weiss, Diamond, Demark, & Lovald, 2003). However, leading up to and beyond the re-introduction of athletes with ID into the London Paralympics in 2012 there has been an increasing interest in the participation of these athletes in elite competition, and it is this work which will form the focus of this review. The ord Ol pi s a d people ith ID have a long association through the SpecialOlympics. The Special Olympics was originally set up in the US in the late 6 s with the aim to provide training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. These days it caters to 4.2 million people across the world and includes a programme of unified (disabled and nondisabled) sport. However, within the Special Olympics, although highly successful and bringing benefit to millions of people with ID and their families across the globe, the emphasis is more on participation, empowerment and opportunity than achieving elite performance (Specialolympics.org, 2015). This domain is the remit of another organisation, the International Federation for Para-athletes with Intellectual Disability (INAS). The vision of INAS is ….inspired y a elief that an intelle tual disa ility should not e a barrier to enjoying and being the best in sport. INAS ision is that athletes ith an intelle tualdisability across the World have the opportunity to achieve excellence in sport ...

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“…However, when it comes to studying this process, research has tended to take an episodic approach to the phenomenon (cf. Kanfer, 1990;Williams, Donovan & Dodge, 2000), with little interest generally being shown in understanding how motivation behavior evolves. To date, traditional theories have largely failed to investigate what happens once a goal is met, consider the results with value, or at what point perceived justice achieves a new equilibrium.…”

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Chaos in Human Behavior: The Case of Work Motivation

Navarro

Arrieta

2010

Span. j. psychol.

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This study considers the complex dynamics of work motivation. Forty-eight employees completed a work-motivation diary several times per day over a period of four weeks. The obtained time series were analysed using different methodologies derived from chaos theory (i.e. recurrence plots, Lyapunov exponents, correlation dimension and surrogate data). Results showed chaotic dynamics in 75% of cases. The findings confirm the universality of chaotic behavior within human behavior, challenge some of the underlying assumptions on which work motivation theories are based, and suggest that chaos theory may offer useful and relevant information on how this process is managed within organizations. Keywords: work motivation, deterministic chaos, complexity science, diary technique.Se realizó un estudio con el objetivo de explorar la posible dinámica caótica de la motivación en el trabajo. Cuarenta y ocho trabajadores contestaron un diario sobre su motivación en el trabajo varias veces al día durante cuatro semanas. Las series obtenidas fueron sometidas a diferentes técnicas de análisis no lineal derivadas de la teoría del caos (gráficos de recurrencia, exponentes de Lyapunov, dimensión de correlación y surrogate data). Los resultados mostraron dinámicas caóticas en un 75% de los casos. Ello confirma la universalidad del comportamiento caótico también dentro del comportamiento humano. Tales resultados cuestionan algunos de los supuestos fundamentales en los que se basan las teorías más establecidas y sugieren que la teoría del caos puede ofrecer información útil y relevante acerca de cómo gestionar la motivación en contextos laborales.Palabras clave: motivación en el trabajo, caos determinista, ciencia de la complejidad, técnica del diario.

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Self-Regulation of Performance: Goal Establishment and Goal Revision Processes in Athletes

Cited by 78 publications

References 34 publications

A theoretical framework and research agenda for studying team attributions in sport

A theoretical framework and research agenda for studying team attributions in sport

The impact of intellectual disabilities on elite sports performance

Chaos in Human Behavior: The Case of Work Motivation

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