Implicit Motives, Laterality, Sports Participation and Competition in Gymnasts
Schütz LM, Schultheiss O (2020)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2020
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Book Volume: 11
Article Number: 900
Journal Issue: 11
Abstract
The implicit motivational needs for power, achievement, and affiliation are relevant for sports performance. Due to their hypothesized association with functions of the right hemisphere (McClelland, 1986), they may influence lateralized perceptual and motor processes. And due to their interactions with motive-specific incentives, they may influence performance conditional on the presence of suitable incentives. This preregistered study, conducted mostly online, examines motivational needs using a standard picture-story exercise (PSE) and their associations with indicators of perceptual and motor laterality and sports performance in gymnasts (N = 67). Further it explores how implicit motives interact with suitable motivational incentives in the prediction of sports performance. Results partly confirm a link between indicators of cerebral rightward laterality and implicit motives: the implicit affiliation and achievement motives are positively associated with an indicator of emotional-perceptional laterality (chimeric-faces task), but not with an indicator of motor laterality (turning bias). Moreover, the implicit achievement motive was positively correlated with training hours. The implicit affiliation motive was negatively associated with the highest attained competition level. The presence of achievement incentives (perceived control, failure) and affiliation incentives (training together or alone) did not interact with corresponding motives to predict sports performance.
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APA:
Schütz, L.M., & Schultheiss, O. (2020). Implicit Motives, Laterality, Sports Participation and Competition in Gymnasts. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(11). https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00900
MLA:
Schütz, Lisa Marie, and Oliver Schultheiss. "Implicit Motives, Laterality, Sports Participation and Competition in Gymnasts." Frontiers in Psychology 11.11 (2020).
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