Perceived motivational climate, need satisfaction and indices of well-being in team sports: A longitudinal perspective
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Participants and procedures
One hundred and twenty-eight (89 females, 39 males; M age=19.56; SD=1.83) athletes from a large British university participated in this study. The present study included two data collections over the course of 5 months. Two hundred and fifty-seven athletes took part in the first data collection. An attrition rate of 48% at Time 2 was predominantly due to the absence from practice of the athletes in question on the day of the data collection. Using dummy-coding (stay vs. dropout) to test for
Results
Means, standard deviations, and alpha coefficients for the study variables are shown in Table 1. On average, participants reported an increase in perceptions of the task-involving climate and a decrease in perceptions of an ego-involving climate from Time 1 to Time 2. They also reported higher levels of need satisfaction (i.e. autonomy, competence and relatedness), subjective vitality, and reported less physical symptoms across the same time period. Paired sample t-tests showed that all changes
Discussion
This study set out to investigate whether sport participation might play a role in contributing to or compromising health and how situational factors can influence the quality of athletes' sport experience and subjective well-being. More specifically, we examined the relationship between changes in facets of the social environment perceived to be engineered by the coach (i.e. the task- and ego-involving features) to changes in need satisfaction and indices of psychological and physical
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