Stay positive: self-talk in relation to motivational climate, goal orientation, and self-talk encouragement in tennis
(Positiv bleiben: Selbstgespräche in Relation zu Motivationsklima, Zielorientierung und Selbstgesprächsförderung im Tennis)
Purpose: Motivation among young athletes can be reflected in their self-talk, a behavior that is often encouraged by coaches. Most research on self-talk in sport involves self-report, thus observational studies of the actual self-talk used in sport in relation to athlete motivation and coach support are needed.
Methods: We observed young elite tennis athletes (N = 28) talking to themselves on the court and obtained self-reported measures of self-talk use, goal-orientation for sport, perception of coach motivational climate, and coach encouragement of self-talk.
Results: Results showed that higher levels of perceived coach mastery climate and personal mastery orientation typically coincided with more reported use of positive self-talk, while higher levels of perceived ego climate coincided with more frequent observed positive and motivational self-talk on the court. Coaches generally encouraged self-talk, but associations between coach encouragement and athlete self-talk use were sparse.
Conclusion: Results suggest researchers need to examine how encouragement of self-talk affects both reported (inner) and observed (external) self-talk in youth sport.
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Schlagworte: | Tennis Sportpsychologie Einstellung Motivation Psychoregulation |
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Notationen: | Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften Nachwuchssport Spielsportarten |
Tagging: | Selbstgespräch Zielorientierung |
DOI: | 10.1080/02701367.2021.1918323 |
Veröffentlicht in: | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport |
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2022
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Jahrgang: | 93 |
Heft: | 4 |
Seiten: | 769-780 |
Dokumentenarten: | Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Level: | hoch |