Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season

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

doi:10.3390/su15031750

Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season

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

^*Corresponding author for this work

Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

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Abstract

Grounded in self-determination theory (SDT), the major aim of this study was to examine the social, environmental, and motivational predictors of adolescent football players’ intentions to drop out of their sport over the course of a season. Participants were 552 players (Mage = 11.23, SD = 1.14). A longitudinal model was tested which hypothesized changes in the coach’s interpersonal style (autonomy supportive, controlling) perceived by the players to predict changes in the players’ motivation (autonomous, controlled and amotivation) which subsequently predicted changes in their intentions to drop out at the season’s end. The results of the longitudinal path analysis presented an adequate fit to the data. Consistent with SDT, findings suggest that increases in autonomy-supportive coaching is promotive of increases in players’ autonomous motivation, which negatively predicted dropout intentions. Over time, more perceived controlling coaching behaviors positively predicted higher levels of controlled motivation and amotivation, with positive changes in the latter corresponding to stronger intentions to dropout.

Original language	English
Article number	1750
Number of pages	13
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	15
Issue number	3
Early online date	17 Jan 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031750
Publication status	Published - Feb 2023

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Keywords

football
intention to drop out
longitudinal
motivation
motivational climate

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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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Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season

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