Describe and explain Nicholls (1984) achievement goal theory. Use sporting examples to show your understanding.
Motivation is the psychological constructs that energise, direct and regulate achievement behaviour (Roberts, 2001), which means they want to reach desired goals and to produce desired outcomes. The study of motivation has been a major area of interest to sport psychologists since the 1990s, which comes from the work of educational psychologists who proposed that motivation should be viewed more in terms of personal thoughts and perceptions rather than some innate quality.
The argument from (Maehr & Nicholl,1980) was that success and failure are not concrete events. They are psychological states consequent on perception of reaching …show more content…
Ego involved people judge their ability relative to others and have to demonstrate superior ability or outperform others to be satisfied with themselves. On the other hand, people who are task involved have a less differentiated conception of ability, as they believe ability and effort both have an equal part in the process. This means the harder you try, the more able you feel. People who are highly task involved use a self-reflective manner, which means they use cues such as levels of effort and task completion to asses their competence. A task involved performer has a high level of satisfaction if they perform to a level that reflects they have made personal improvements or mastered a task. Achievement goal theory has a major belief that individuals will be predisposed to task and ego orientations as a result of socialisation experiences in their sport, which leads to these orientations subsequently influencing whether an individual will adopt a task or ego or in a specific situation. Furthermore, the prevailing motivational climate will also affect the adoption of achievement goals (Biddle & Ntoumanis, 1999). In the sort term, the levels of task and ego involvement that is stimulated in a specific sport situation will be determined by individual preferences and and situational suggestions. There has not been much research conducted on goal
Motivation is the psychological constructs that energise, direct and regulate achievement behaviour (Roberts, 2001), which means they want to reach desired goals and to produce desired outcomes. The study of motivation has been a major area of interest to sport psychologists since the 1990s, which comes from the work of educational psychologists who proposed that motivation should be viewed more in terms of personal thoughts and perceptions rather than some innate quality.
The argument from (Maehr & Nicholl,1980) was that success and failure are not concrete events. They are psychological states consequent on perception of reaching …show more content…
Ego involved people judge their ability relative to others and have to demonstrate superior ability or outperform others to be satisfied with themselves. On the other hand, people who are task involved have a less differentiated conception of ability, as they believe ability and effort both have an equal part in the process. This means the harder you try, the more able you feel. People who are highly task involved use a self-reflective manner, which means they use cues such as levels of effort and task completion to asses their competence. A task involved performer has a high level of satisfaction if they perform to a level that reflects they have made personal improvements or mastered a task. Achievement goal theory has a major belief that individuals will be predisposed to task and ego orientations as a result of socialisation experiences in their sport, which leads to these orientations subsequently influencing whether an individual will adopt a task or ego or in a specific situation. Furthermore, the prevailing motivational climate will also affect the adoption of achievement goals (Biddle & Ntoumanis, 1999). In the sort term, the levels of task and ego involvement that is stimulated in a specific sport situation will be determined by individual preferences and and situational suggestions. There has not been much research conducted on goal