A Longitudinal Examination of Coach and Peer Motivational Climates in Youth Sport: Implications for Moral Attitudes, Well-Being, and Behavioral Investment

Ntoumanis, Nikos; Taylor, I.; Thøgersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie

doi:10.1037/a0024934

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Ntoumanis, Nikos

Taylor, I.

Thøgersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie

Date

2012

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Journal Article

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Ntoumanis, N. and Taylor, I. and Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C. 2012. A Longitudinal Examination of Coach and Peer Motivational Climates in Youth Sport: Implications for Moral Attitudes, Well-Being, and Behavioral Investment. Developmental Psychology. 48 (1): pp. 213-223.

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Developmental Psychology

DOI

10.1037/a0024934

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0012-1649

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2844

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Embedded in achievement goal theory (Ames, 1992; Meece, Anderman, & Anderman, 2006), this study examined how perceptions of coach and peer motivational climate in youth sport predicted moral attitudes, emotional well-being, and indices of behavioral investment in a sample of British adolescents competing in regional leagues. We adopted a longitudinal perspective, taking measures at the middle and the end of a sport season, as well as at the beginning of the following season. Multilevel modeling analyses showed that perceptions of task-involving peer and coach climates were predictive of more adaptive outcomes than were perceptions of ego-involving peer and coach climates. Predictive effects differed as a function of time and outcome variable under investigation. The results indicate the importance of considering peer influence in addition to coach influence when examining motivational climate in youth sport.