Changes in drop out intentions: Implications of the motivational climate, goal orientations and aspects of self-worth across a youth sport season

Priscila Fabra; Isabel Castillo; Lorena González-García; Joan L. Duda; Isabel Balaguer

doi:10.3390/su132413850

Changes in drop out intentions: Implications of the motivational climate, goal orientations and aspects of self-worth across a youth sport season

Priscila Fabra
, Isabel Castillo
, Lorena González-García^*
, Joan L. Duda
, Isabel Balaguer

^*Corresponding author for this work

Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

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The main objective of this work was to study the motivational antecedents of the intention to drop out of youth sport from the postulates of the achievement goal theory (AGT), placing special emphasis on the motivational climate that coaches create in their teams. Specifically, we analyzed whether changes in the perception of the motivational climate between the beginning and the end of the season predicted changes in players’ goal orientations, whether these, in turn, predicted changes in self-esteem and contingent self-esteem, and finally, whether the latter predicted the intention to drop out. Participants in the study were 552 players (M_age = 11.23, SD = 1.14), who completed the questionnaires at the beginning and at the end of the season. The results of the longitudinal structural model presented acceptable goodness-of-fit indices and the relationships were significant in the expected direction according to the postulates of the AGT. This research provides evidence that AGT is a relevant theoretical model for the study of drop out in sport.

Original language	English
Article number	13850
Number of pages	12
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	13
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413850
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2021

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Drop out intentions
Goal orientations
Motivational climate
Self-worth
Young football players

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Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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FP7_COLLAB - PAPA : Promoting Adolescent health through an intervention aimed at improving the quality of their participation in Physical Activity
Duda, J. (Principal Investigator), Ntoumanis, N. (Co-Investigator) & Cumming, J. (Co-Investigator)
European Commission, European Commission - Management Costs
1/04/09 → 30/09/13
Project: Research

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