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Verification of a motivational climate inventory in a sport setting

It is determined that two dispositional points exist, which differentiate between individuals in their goal perspective decisions (i.e. task and ego orientation) in relation to the way how a person judges his/her competence and defines achievement success. Motivational climate in sport setting can be characterised as more or less task or ego involving which is related to athletes motivational responses, i.e. goal perspective choice in the training process. The sample comprised of 144 male Croatian basketball players from 9 teams, aged 14-16 years. They responded LAPOPECQ questionnaire that was constructed to measure learning and performance orientation in PE classes. By applying this instrument to the sport setting it was expected to obtain an insight into the factor structure which defines motivational climate of young basketball players based on their achievement orientation (learning and performance orientation) in basketball ‘training lessons’. According to the principal components factor analysis (GK - criterion) and after fixing principal components of intercorrelation items matrix, this results mostly confirmed the Papaioannou’s model because 23 out of 27 items defined the same hypothetical factors as in Papaioannou’s solution, and 45, 71% of variance were explained by the questionnaire items. The first factor was defined as the learning oriented environment occurring as a result of athlete’s satisfaction in learning. The second factor suggested a climate in which success is defined by normative based criteria of evaluation. The third factor explained athletes’ worries about mistakes. The fourth one implied a climate in which success is defined by ability criteria based on outcome without effort, and the last factor implied a learning orientation climate which is created by coach behaviour.

motivational climate ; goal orientation ; basketball

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