The relationship between goal perspectives, persistence and behavioral intensity among male and female recreational sport participants

Abstract

To cite this article: Joan L. Duda (1988) The relationship between goal perspectives, persistence and behavioral intensity among male and female recreational sport participants, Leisure Sciences, 10:2, 95-106To link to this article: http://dx.

Understanding the Dynamics of Motivation in Sport and Physical Activity: An Achievement Goal Interpretation

“…In general, the research has shown that (a) taskinvolved people exhibit (or report) greater effort than others Duda, 1988;Duda & Nicholls, 1992;Goudas et al, 1994;Sarrazin et al, 2002;Solmon, 1996;Tammen, Treasure, & Power, 1992), and ( b) ego-involved people with low perceived ability exhibit reduced exerted effort as opposed to people with high perceived ability (Cury, Biddle, et al, 1997). And there is developing evidence that being task-involved leads to better performance.…”

Motivation and achievement goals: after 25 years, where are we, where are we going?

“…Swain and Harwood (1996) have suggested that an individual with both goal orientations cannot fail to be satisfied because they have more than one criterion of success. Duda (1988) has asserted a similar notion and states that persistence may be increased with both orientations because a person has two sources of determining success. For an athlete, being both task and ego involved in an activity is both intuitively plausible and conceptually consistent with achievement goal theory.…”

Physical activity leisure‐time participation of boys with developmental coordination disorder

“…Adopting task-oriented goals is positively associated with effort, persistence, perceptions of competence, task choice and intensity/degree of effort exerted in performance situations (Duda, 1988;. Therefore adoption of task oriented dispositional goal orientations may be one mechanism contributing not only to high participation in leisure-time physical activities for boys with DCD, but also to effective and cognitive appraisals associated with perceived life satisfaction.…”