Can Achievement Goals be Primed in Competitive Tasks?

• Authors: Iain Greenlees , Sean Figgins , Philip Kearney
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study examined whether achievement goal priming effects would be observed within an overtly competitive setting. Male soccer players (N = 66) volunteered to participate in a soccer penalty-kick taking competition during which they took 20 penalty-kicks on 2 occasions. Following a pretest, participants were allocated to 1 of 5 priming conditions. Immediately prior to the posttest, participants in the priming conditions were asked to complete what was presented as an ostensibly unrelated task that took the form of either a computer task (subliminal priming) or wordsearch task (supraliminal priming). Results revealed that priming had no significant influence on performance.

Keywords

EN

priming; penalty-kicks; achievement goals

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 245-250

Dates

published

1 - 3 - 2014

online

9 - 4 - 2014

Contributors

author

Iain Greenlees

• Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, UK

author

Sean Figgins

• Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, UK

author

Philip Kearney

• Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, UK

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/hukin-2014-0026