Monitoring the Climate: Exploring the psychological environment in an Elite Soccer Academy

Kieran Kingston; Kevin Morgan; Daniel Wixey

doi:10.1080/10413200.2018.1481466

Monitoring the Climate: Exploring the psychological environment in an Elite Soccer Academy

Kieran Kingston, Kevin Morgan, Daniel Wixey

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Abstract

Fostering a constructive motivational climate is an important contributor to an individual’s motivation (Ames, 1992a), yet research within elite sport remains limited. The purpose of this study was to utilise the task, authority, recognition, grouping, evaluation, and time (TARGET) framework to explore the motivational climate in an elite youth football academy. Sixty-four academy training sessions were observed. Findings suggested that the task, authority, recognition, and evaluation structures are most important in predicting a mastery motivational climate. Task organisation parameters and coach behaviours influential
in promoting adaptive and less adaptive psychological environments are discussed.

Original language	English
Number of pages	34
Journal	Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
Early online date	25 Sep 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2018.1481466
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 25 Sep 2018

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TARGET
motivational climate
qualitative
British football academy

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