Resumen de Coaching Behaviors, Motivational Climate, and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Female Adolescent Athletes
Maureen R. Weiss, Anthony J. Amorose, Anna Marie Wilko
Based on Harter�s (12,13) competence motivation theory, this study examined the relationship of coaches� performance feedback and motivational climate with female athletes� perceived competence, enjoyment, and intrinsic motivation. Female adolescent soccer players (N = 141) completed measures of relevant constructs toward the latter part of their season. Canonical correlation analysis revealed that athletes� perceptions of greater positive and informational feedback given by coaches in response to successful performance attempts, greater emphasis placed on a mastery climate, and less emphasis placed on a performance climate, were significantly related to greater ability perceptions, enjoyment, and intrinsic motivation. Exploratory analyses also showed that the relationship between feedback and the psychosocial outcomes may vary as a function of the perceived motivational climate. Overall, these results suggest that coaching feedback and motivational climate are important contributors to explaining adolescent females� continued motivation to participate in sport.
