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Moseid, Nils Fredrik Holm; Lemyre, Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn; Fagerland, Morten Wang; Moseid, Christine Holm & Bahr, Roald
(2024).
No Pain No Gain: Associations Between Health Problems, Motivation and Coach Relation.
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Moseid, Nils Fredrik Holm; Moseid, Christine Holm; Lemyre, Nicolas; Fagerland, Morten & Bahr, Roald
(2021).
Injury, illness and coaching style - associations with burnout in young elite athletes .
British Journal of Sports Medicine.
ISSN 0306-3674.
55.
doi:
10.1136/bjsports-2021-IOC.55.
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Moseid, Nils Fredrik Holm; Moseid, Christine Holm; Bahr, Roald; Lemyre, Nicolas & Fagerland, Morten
(2021).
Injury, illness and coaching style: associations with burnout in young elite athletes.
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Moseid, Nils Fredrik Holm; Bahr, Roald; Lemyre, Nicolas & Moseid, Christine Holm
(2019).
Skade, sykdom, trenerstil: Sammenheng med utbrenthet hos unge eliteidrettsutøvere.
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Moseid, Nils Fredrik Holm; Bahr, Roald; Lemyre, Nicolas & Moseid, Christine Holm
(2019).
Health of the young elite athlete.
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Moseid, Nils Fredrik Holm; Moseid, Christine Holm; Bahr, Roald & Lemyre, Nicolas
(2019).
Skade, sykdom, trenerstil: Sammenheng med utbrenthet hos unge eliteidrettsutøvere.
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Moseid, Nils Fredrik Holm; Moseid, Christine Holm; Bahr, Roald & Lemyre, Nicolas
(2019).
Health Problems and Athlete Burnout- a study of 210 Young Elite Athletes.
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Bentzen, Marte; Kenttä, Göran & Lemyre, Nicolas
(2017).
Well-being for sports coaches:: equality between coaches in abledbodied elite sport and paralympic sport?
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Bentzen, Marte; Kenttä, Göran & Lemyre, Nicolas
(2017).
Elite Football Coaches Experiences and
Sensemaking about Being Fired, An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
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Bentzen, Marte; Richter, Anne; Kenttä, Göran & Lemyre, Nicolas
(2017).
The Impact of Job Insecurity and
Value on Psychological Well- and Ill-being among High-Performance Coaches. .
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Bentzen, Marte; Sørensen, Marit & Lemyre, Nicolas
(2016).
From "I love" to "I must" – The lived
experiences of a professional equestrian coach about being in a severe burnout
process
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Bentzen, Marte; Lemyre, Nicolas & Kenttä, Göran
(2016).
Exhaustion and cynicism needs to be targeted
differently – a study among Paralympic coaches.
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Bentzen, Marte; Lemyre, Nicolas & Kenttä, Göran
(2015).
Variation in the Ability to Meet Recovery
Demands Explains Susceptibility to Burnout in Elite Soccer Coaches
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Bentzen, Marte; Lemyre, Nicolas & Kenttä, Göran
(2015).
Basic Psychological Needs Thwarting and
Shift in Quality of Motivation: Markers of Exhaustion in Professional Sport Coaches.
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Bentzen, Marte; Lemyre, Nicolas & Kenttä, Göran
(2013).
Advances in sport-based burnout research-Determinants of burnout in high-level sport coaches.
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology (JSEP).
ISSN 0895-2779.
35,
p. S14–S14.
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Lemyre, Nicolas; Fournier, J.; Hausswirth, Christophe & Toussaint, Jean-Francois
(2013).
Psychological aspects of recovery.
In Hausswirth, Christophe & Mujika, Iñigo (Ed.),
Recovery for performance in sport.
Human Kinetics.
ISSN 978-1-4504-3434-8.
p. 43–52.
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Lemyre, Nicolas
(2012).
Cheating in sport science: A case study and panel discussion-The responsibilities of universities to respond to data fraud.
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology (JSEP).
ISSN 0895-2779.
34,
p. S11–S11.
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Bentzen, Marte & Lemyre, Nicolas
(2011).
Prevention of burnout among elite sport coaches: The
mediating role of positive emotions and satisfaction with work
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Miller, Blake W.; Miller, Blake W.; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas & Roberts, Glyn C.
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(2009).
Predicting Sportspersonship in Competitive Youth Sport: How Influential are Coaches Anyway?
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Previous research has indicated that perceptions of the motivational climate may predict affect and behavior in sport more than individual goal orientations (see Roberts, 2001). However, investigation of the motivational climate and goal orientations as predictors of sport morality is lacking in the literature. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the predictive qualities of both the coach created motivational climate and player goal orientations regarding sportspersonship in organized youth soccer. Participants were 714 (N=512 male, N= 202 female, 12-14 years) youth soccer players from teams competing in a large international tournament. The PMCSQ (Seifriz et al., 1992), the POSQ (Roberts et al., 1998) were utilized to measure players? climate perceptions and their goal orientations respectively, while the MSOS (Vallerand et al., 1997) was employed to measure sportspersonship. A series of multiple regression analyses were conducted in order to regress mastery and performance climate perceptions and task and ego goal orientations over the four emerging sportspersonship subscales, namely respect for ones commitment to sport, respect for social conventions, respect and concern for one?s opponent, and lastly respect and concern for the rules and officials. For all of the four regression analyses, mastery climate emerged as the strongest predictor of sportspersonship. For three of the four regression models (commitment, social conventions, and rules/officials) task orientation also emerged as a positive, yet weaker predictor of sportspersonship than a mastery climate. In light of these findings it appears that in fact coaches do have a strong influence on the sport morality of youth athletes, and clearly a mastery climate emphasis is important if fair play and sportspersonship in the competitive youth sport arena is desired. Mastery climate structure and focus will also be discussed in respect to the coaching and mentoring of youth in organized competitive sport.
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Ommundsen, Yngvar; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik & Roberts, Glyn C.
(2008).
Passion for soccer: Does it mediate the influence of the motivational climate on young players¿ sense of vitality?
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Types of passion were investigated in relationship to motivational climate and subjective vitality in youth soccer. Participants were 283 experienced young soccer players (aged 12-16 years) taking part in the Norway Cup soccer tournament 2004. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to examine the construct validity of the harmonious and obsessive passion constructs, and Structural Equation Modelling analyses were utilized to test hypothesized paths between predictor, mediator and outcome variables. Subjective vitality was positively predicted by a mastery climate, harmonious passion and obsessive passion. In line with expectations, paths linking a positive mastery climate, harmonious passion and subjective vitality were also observed. Current findings illustrate the value of combining tenets of achievement goal theory (Nicholls, 1989) with the integrative sequence model of passion ((Vallerand et.al., 2003). However, the study findings also demonstrated the need for re-specification of the passion scales noticeably based on the positive relation found between obsessive passion and subjective vitality. Within the context of youth soccer, there is a need for further validation of the concepts of harmonious versus obsessive passion (Vallerand et al., 2006).
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Ommundsen, Yngvar & Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik
(2007).
Passion and the motivational patterns of youth football players.
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Recent research investigating passion in sport participants (see Vallerand et al., 2006) reveals that harmonious and obsessive passions represent a great source of motivation for sport involvement. However, while harmonious passion has been associated with adaptive achievement striving, obsessive passion has been linked to maladaptive achievement outcomes such as increased stress and negative affect, interpersonal conflicts and unhealthy sport persistence. The present study was designed to examine the contribution of two types of passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) in predicting the perfectionist dispositions, the achievement goals as well as the perception of the team motivational climate of youth elite soccer players. Participants were 283 competitive football players (M= 177; F=106; 12-16 y/o) competing in the Norway Cup International Football Tournament. Findings revealed that young football players demonstrating high levels of obsessive passion for their sport reported having high personal standards as well as feeling concerned about making mistakes when playing football, these athletes were high ego orientation and perceived the team motivational climate as being performance oriented. When athletes balanced their obsessive passion with a high sense of harmonious passion, they expressed being simultaneously high in task and ego orientation, they also felt they had high personal standards when playing football and perceived the team climate as being mastery oriented. The findings support a dualistic model of passion in sports (Vallerand et al., 2006). Harmonious and obsessive passion yields qualitatively different motivational patterns in youth football participants.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2007).
Les déterminants psychologiques de l'épuisement sportif chez l'athlète d'élite.
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Au cours des vingt dernières années, l¿augmentation considérable des charges d¿entraînement chez les athlètes ainsi que des modifications structurelles du sport d¿élite ont vraisemblablement contribué à l¿apparition croissante de problèmes d¿adaptation à l¿entraînement sportif (e.g., Coakley, 1992; Gould, 1996; Raglin & Wilson, 2000). Adoptant un modèle de recherche médical, plusieurs études physiologiques ont examiné divers aspects reliés aux problèmes d¿adaptation à l¿entraînement, dont entre autre l¿épuisement sportif (voir Steinacker & Lehmann, 2002). Peu de recherche utilise toutefois une approche psychologique se penchant sur les antécédents et conséquences de cet état débilitant. Issu à la fois de besoins essentiels insatisfaits et d¿attentes non réalisées, l¿épuisement sportif est caractérisé par le désillusionnement progressif, engendrant des symptômes psychologiques et physiques qui mènent à un sentiment diminué d¿estime de soi (Freudenberger, 1980; Gold & Roth, 1993). Les athlètes impliqués dans l¿atteinte d¿un objectif convoité sont susceptibles de souffrir d¿épuisement sportif au cours de périodes d¿effort physiologique et/ou psychologique prolongées (e.g., Gould & Dieffenbach, 2002; Silva, 1990). Lorsqu¿ils souffrent d¿épuisement sportif, les athlètes démontrent communément des signes de fatigue chronique, des troubles de sommeil, des signes de dépression et un sentiment d¿impuissance (Silva, 1990; Smith, 1986). Leur performance en est inévitablement affectée. Une rémission complète de l¿épuisement sportif peut nécessiter plusieurs mois, voire des années de repos et d¿arrêt de la compétition (e.g., Kellmann, 2002). Jusqu¿ici, les processus qui peuvent mener un athlète à l¿épuisement n¿ont pas été identifiés, et la plupart des études effectuées sur l¿épuisement sportif sont dépourvues de cadres théoriques appropriés. Le but de ce projet de recherche est de proposer un cadre théorique motivationnel à l¿intérieur d¿une approche multidisciplinaire afin de mieux comprendre les déterminants psychologiques et physiologiques de l¿épuisement sportif chez les athlètes d¿élite. Au total, six études ont été complétées. Ce projet de recherche présente des résultats qui supportent l¿utilisation d¿un cadre motivationnel à l¿intérieur d¿une approche multidisciplinaire pour mieux comprendre les facteurs qui influencent le développement des symptômes de l¿épuisement sportif chez les athlètes d¿élite. Les buts d¿accomplissement des athlètes ainsi que la qualité de leur motivation autodéterminée représentent deux variables qui sont reliées à l¿épuisement sportif. Lorsque nous avons étudié l¿épuisement sportif chez les athlètes d¿élite à l¿aide d¿une approche multidisciplinaire, les résultats ont démontré que les variables motivationnelles expliquent 50% de variance additionnelle à la prédiction obtenue en étudiant seulement les variations hormonales.
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Ommundsen, Yngvar; Roberts, Glyn C.; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas & Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik
(2007).
Motivational climate, need satisfaction, regulation of motivation and subjective vitality: A study of young soccer players,
Book of Abstracts from the 12th European Congress of Sport Psychology.
European Federation of Sport Psychology.
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We investigated the role of motivational climate, perceived competence, autonomy and social relatedness on young players? motivational regulation, and the effect of these factors on subjective vitality while playing soccer. Participants were 283 experienced young players (aged 12-16 years; Boys n= 177, [M = 13.9, SD = 2.9]; Girls n= 106 [M= 14.4, SD = 2.1]) taking part in the Norway Cup international youth soccer tournament 2004. Multiple regression analysis revealed that intrinsically regulated motivation as measured by the relative autonomy index (RAI) was positively and genuinely predicted by a mastery climate, perceived competence, perceived autonomy, and perceived relatedness accounting for 22% of the variance in RAI. Path analyses accompanied by Sobel?s tests to calculate mediation further revealed that perceived competence, perceived autonomy and perceived relatedness significantly and partially mediated these relationships. Moreover, a performance climate, reduced autonomy and relatedness accounted for 16% of the variance in amotivation. As also indicated by Sobel? test results, the role of a performance climate on amotivation was partly attributed to reduced autonomy support and social relatedness. Thirty eight per cent of the variance in the players? subjective vitality in soccer was explained by the total predictor set. A mastery climate, perceived autonomy, and intrinsically regulated motivation all genuinely and positively predicted higher levels of subjective vitality in soccer. In a separate regression model, perceived competence, autonomy and relatedness were shown to fuel subjective vitality with 24 % of the variance accounted for. Findings illustrate the value of blending tenets of achievement goal theory and self-determination theory, and attest to the importance of studying paths between distal contextual factors and more proximal psychological mediating influences.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2006).
Suksessfaktorer: Hva skal til for å oppnå suksess i RG? Mental treningsplanlegging: Konkurranseforberedelser og rutiner.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2006).
Mental Prestasjonstrening for RG Utøvere Hva skal til for å oppnå suksess?
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2006).
Mestringens betydning for motivasjon.
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Mestringsorientering og prestasjonsorientering. Kvaliteten på motivasjonen er viktig. Mestringsmotivasjonen er av høyere kvalitet. Toppidrettsutøvere har både sterk mestrings- og prestasjonsorientering. Identifisere målet og fokusere på prosessen som må til for å nå målet.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik & Ommundsen, Yngvar
(2006).
Passion, Motivation and Well-Being in Youth Soccer Players.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2006).
Determinants of Burnout in Elite Athletes: A Multidimensional Perspective.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Kuczka, Kendy; Treasure, Darren C. & Roberts, Glyn C.
(2006).
A Qualitative Account of the Factors Linked to Overtraining and Burnout in Elite Athletes.
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology (JSEP).
ISSN 0895-2779.
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The research project support the proposed link between OTS and athlete burnout (Kenttä & Hassmén, 2002) and suggest that in the case of elite athletes OTS may in fact be a precursor of athlete burnout. Four of the five athletes reported having little input on the content of their training and that they competed because they felt that it was expected of them. Some athletes felt that they had to perform to justify and keep their scholarship, while one athlete mentioned disliking swimming but stuck with it to fulfill family expectations. All interviewed athletes felt emotionally exhausted from their season. These findings support the use of a motivational framework to study maladaptive performance outcomes in elite athletes.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C. & Treasure, Darren C.
(2006).
When motivation goes wrong: Using a motivational approach to understand athlete burnout.
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Studies were conducted during the year leading to the Olympics and involved a total of 194 athletes. Results revealed that elite winter sport athletes who are ego involved, that is, focusing on normative comparisons, preoccupied with achieving unrealistic goals, doubting their own actions and ability, as well as having a coach and parents who emphasized performance outcomes, were clearly more at risk of developing signs of burnout than task involved athletes.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2006).
Psychological Aspects of the Overtraining Syndrome.
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An initial sign of NFOR is the tendency to become totally passive versus active in recovery (Davis et al., 2002). Negative behavioural shifts that can correlate with NFOR & OTS may include lesser tendencies to re-hydrate, eat, and sleep in a regulated way; to attend regimens for dry-land training and stretching; and to meet one?s social needs. When studying the current body of research on overtraining, we find that there are are alternative psychological markers to the POMS, that may better elucidate the process behind NFOR & OTS. Stress-Recovery Model seems to be a very good tool to increase awareness in athletes to avoid OTS. Affect swings may be an important marker of psychological distress. Changes in self-determined motivation may predict OTS. Maladaptive achievement goals and motivational climate, as well as perfectionistic tendencies, passion and athlete identity should be address when an athlete seeks to recover from NFOR and OTS.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Treasure, Darren C. & Roberts, Glyn C.
(2006).
A qualitative account of the factors linked to symptoms of overtraining and burnout in elite athletes.
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology (JSEP).
ISSN 0895-2779.
p. 111–112.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik & Ommundsen, Yngvar
(2006).
Passion, Motivation, and Well-Being in Youth Soccer Players.
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Ommundsen, Yngvar; Roberts, Glyn C.; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik; Pensgaard, Anne Marte & Standage, Martyn
(2006).
What makes for a psychologically healthful versus risky soccer engagement? The role of the motivational climate,
Abstract book AIESEP World Congress 2006.
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Current approaches to well-being and ill-being of sport participation suggest that differences in the sport context may mediate the influence of participation on its outcomes. In the present study we hypothesized that the motivational climate represents a mediator influencing potential beneficial and aversive psychosocial outcomes of soccer involvement. Participants were 283 experienced young soccer players (aged 12-16 years) taking part in an international youth soccer tournament. Several scales assessing different cognitions, affective states, self-reported behaviours and indices of psychosocial health were administered. Multivariate analyses as well as follow-up canonical correlation analyses revealed that a predominantly task involving motivational climate was linked to psychologically healthy soccer involvement outcomes (RC1 = .54). These outcome variables comprised self-determined sport motivation, satisfaction of fundamental psychological needs, positive affect, the absence of dysfunctional self-protective tactics, the absence health compromising perfectionism and finally harmonious passion for soccer. In contrast, an ego involving motivational climate was linked to negative psychological health outcomes from soccer involvement (RC2 = .38).
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2005).
Viktige psykologiske årsaker ved overtrening og utbrenthet hos toppidrettsutøvere Psychological Determinants of Overtraining and Burnout in Elite Athletes.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2005).
Determinants of Burnout in Elite Athletes: A multidimensional approach.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2005).
Les Déterminants du Burnout chez les Athlètes d?Élite.
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Ce projet de recherche supporte l?utilisation d?un cadre motivationnel, à l?intérieur d?une perspective psycho-physiologique, pour mieux comprendre le burnout chez les athlètes d?élite. Également, les changements hormonaux semblent représenter d?importants marqueurs de burnout. Les buts d?accomplissement des athlètes, ainsi que la qualité de leur motivation sont liés aux signes de burnout. Lorsque nous avons examiné les marqueurs hormonaux et motivationnels, nous avons trouvé que les variables motivationnelles expliquaient plus de 50% de la variation à la propensité au burnout au-delà de la prédiction offerte par les changements hormonaux seuls.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Treasure, Darren C. & Roberts, Glyn C.
(2005).
Influence of Variability in Motivation and Affect on Elite Athlete Burnout Susceptibility.
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An elite American collegiate swim team (N=53, female=21, male=32, age 18-24) was recruited to participate in this study. Each week, athletes completed a logbook recording how they felt on a series of positive and negative affect states (PANAS; Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988). Every third week, athletes completed a short motivation questionnaire (SIMS; Pelletier, Fortier, Vallerand, Tuson, Brière, & Blais, 1995) assessing their current level of self-determination to participate in swimming. For the purpose of the present study, we computed an index of relative autonomy, labeled self-determination index. Burnout dimension (ABQ; Raedeke & Smith, 2002) scores were assessed at the end of the season. The current study investigated the intensity and swings in positive and negative affect in elite swimmers during the course of the last 20 weeks of the season, as well as shifts in self-determined motivation throughout the whole season as a predictor of burnout dimensions at season?s end. Using the slope of the regression line between dates and SDI scores, values representing motivational trend scores for the whole season were computed for each athlete. Next, mean intra-individual standard deviation scores for the whole season were computed and used as indicators of PA and NA swings. Study findings indicate that shifts in the quality of motivation from more self determined to less self determined criteria were reliable predictors of all burnout dimensions, thus supporting Gould (1996) that burnout may be motivation going awry. When swimmers experienced a shift in motivation toward lower self-determination, they were more at risk for burning out. Affect, negative affect in particular, added to the prediction equation. When swimmers experienced increased variability in negative affect, they were more at risk for burnout. The implications of this study to the training of elite athletes are clear. A decrease in quality of motivation throughout the season increases the risk of feeling burned out at the end of the season. Thus, this study supports the value of using a motivational perspective to study athlete burnout (e.g., Gould, 1996; Raedeke, 1997). This study is unique in that beyond the variance explained by shifts of motivation, it also looked at the contribution of intra-individual variance in affect. While NA added to the prediction of all burnout sub-dimensions, variation in PA only helped predict emotional and physical exhaustion at season?s end. If athlete burnout is truly a multidimensional syndrome (Smith, 1986), we believe that further research should combine complimentary perspectives in order to fully understand the mechanisms behind its development. In addition to combining complimentary psychological theories, research should investigate the interplay of physical and psychological variables and the role of the environment in creating the social conditions that may make athletes vulnerable to maladaptive training responses including burn out. This later line of inquiry may be particularly enlightening for researchers interested in burnout given the findings that have demonstrated the positive relationship between autonomy supportive social conditions and psychological well-being in many contexts (Deci & Ryan, 2000).
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Kuczka, Kendy; Treasure, Darren C. & Roberts, Glyn C.
(2005).
Thriving or Burnout? Elite Athletes Telling their Stories.
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In sports, it has been suggested that overtraining and burnout share diagnosis characteristics such as performance loss, fatigue, exhaustion, and mood disturbance (Kenttä & Hassmén, 2002). However, the assumption is that when an athlete is overtrained, motivation remains, whereas the burned out athlete will typically show signs of demotivation, sport devaluation, cynicism and typically experience chronic fatigue, poor sleep patterns, depression, helplessness and performance impairment. Based on recent findings supporting the use of a motivational framework to differentiate between thriving and burned out individuals, the aim of this study was to qualitatively examine factors contributing to the experiences of thriving athletes and athletes experiencing burnout within the same elite sport environment. Participants were five thriving athletes (F=3; M=2) and five burned out athletes (F=2; M=3), selected from a sample of 53 elite swimmers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted within a month of the end of the competitive season. The interviewer was blind to the selection criteria and to any personal information about of the participants. Thriving athletes were low on burnout scores, satisfied with their season, reached their goals, and were rated by the coaches as exceeding expectations, while burned out athletes scored high on burn out, did not reach their goals, were disappointed with their performance, and were rated as performing below expectations. In general, thriving athletes were happier with their performances, happier with life outside sports, felt that they had more input over the content of their training program than their burned out teammates. While thriving athletes reported participating in swimming for highly intrinsic reasons, the burned out athletes trained and competed because they felt that it was expected of them.
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Ommundsen, Yngvar; Roberts, Glyn C.; Miller, Blake W. & Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2005).
Moralsk læring i fotball.
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Ommundsen, Yngvar; Roberts, Glyn C.; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas & Miller, Blake W.
(2005).
Quality of peer relationships and patterns of adaptive and maladaptive achievement striving in adolescent competitive soccer – do they interrelate?
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Competitive sport may offer an important context where peer acceptance and friendship can be established or hindered. The aim of this study is to build upon findings from Ommundsen et.al.,(2005) and examine the genuine impact of differential achievement goal variables and specific sub-dimensions of perfectionism upon indices of quality of peer relations among Norwegian soccer players. 1785 male (n= 1231) and female (n= 488) experienced soccer players (aged 12-19 years; Mean age = 14.9) taking part in the Norway cup international youth soccer tournament responded to a questionnaire (For measurements and psychometric details, see JSS; Ommundsen et.al., (2005). Results revealed that the predictor set of achievement striving variables were able to account for between 6 and 16% of variance in the peer relationship variables. In term of peer acceptance, a mastery climate (beta=.10, p<.001) and adaptive perfectionism as measured by personal standards (beta = .11, p<.001) were found to be positive predictors, whereas performance climate (beta = -.07, p<.01), maladaptive perfectionism in terms of doubt about action (beta = -.07, p<. 01), and concern over mistakes (beta = -.15, p<.001) were found to be negative predictors. In term of quality of friendship as measured by loyalty & free discussion, a mastery climate (beta=.15, p<.001), a task goal (beta =.11, p<.001), adaptive perfectionism as measured by personal standards (beta = .16, p<.001) were all found to be positive predictors, whereas the opposite pattern were found for maladaptive perfectionism in terms of parental expectations (beta= -.06, p<.05, parental criticism (beta= -.08, p <.01), doubt about action (beta = -.05, p<. 05), and concern over mistakes (beta = -.13, p<.001). In term of quality of friendship as measured by companionship, a mastery climate (beta=.14, p<.001), a task goal (beta =.10, p<.001), adaptive perfectionism in terms of personal standards (beta = .11, p<.001) were all found to be positive predictors, whereas negative predictors were maladaptive perfectionism as measured by parental expectations (beta= -.16, p<.001, doubt about action (beta = -.06, p<. 05), and concern over mistakes (beta = -.14, p<.001. In terms of low quality of friendship as measured by conflict in friendship, an ego goal (beta =.07, p<.001), maladaptive perfectionism in terms of parental expectations (beta = .14, p<.001, and concern over mistakes (beta = .08, p<.01) were found to be positive predictors, whereas negative predictors were a task goal (beta = -.06, p<.01), and adaptive perfectionism in terms of personal standards (beta = -.08, p<.001). Apparently, when players become preoccupied with being better than other team members, they may come to look upon each other as competitors within the team and be less willing to invest socially in each other to obtain team success at the expense of their own individual success. Further, maladaptive perfectionists being concerned about making mistakes, parental expectations and criticism as well as doubting their own achievement related actions may come to express anger towards fellow players for not performing up to perfectionist standards. This may in turn threaten the development of friendship and peer acceptance as well as bring young players into conflict with their team friends. Findings suggest that motivational and achievement striving patterns may impact on peer acceptance and quality of friendship relations in adolescent soccer.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2004).
Surentraînement et épuisement chez les athletes d'élite.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas & Roberts, Glyn C.
(2004).
Overtraining and Athlete Burnout: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Treasure, Darren C.; Stray-Gundersen, Jim & Matt, Kathleen S.
(2004).
OVERTRAINING AND BURNOUT IN ELITE ATHLETES: WHEN PHYSIOLOGY MEETS PSYCHOLOGY.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Treasure, Darren C.; Stray-Gundersen, Jim & Matt, Kathleen S.
(2004).
Overtraining and athlete burnout: a psycho-physiological perspective.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Stray-Gundersen, Jim; Treasure, Darren C. & Matt, Kathleen S.
(2004).
Psychological and Physiological Determinants of Overtraining and Burnout in Elite Swimmers.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Stray-Gundersen, Jim; Treasure, Darren C.; Matt, Kathleen S. & Roberts, Glyn C.
(2004).
Physiological and Psychological Monitoring of Overtraining and Burnout in Elite Swimmers.
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Treasure, Darren C.; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Standage, Martyn & Ntoumanis, Nikos
(2004).
A Longitudinal Examination of Motivation Orientation and Basic Needs Satisfaction in a Sample of Elite Level Swimmers.
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Consistent with SDT, perceptions of an autonomy-supportive environment provided the social context required to sustain levels of intrinsic motivation across the swim season. Aligned with basic needs theory, the satisfaction of the innate needs (T2) served to accentuate levels of positive affect (T3) when controlling for positive affect responses (T2). Conceptually coherent findings for negative affect and vitality emerged, but these failed to reach statistical significance. Despite a small sample size, results of our longitudinal study support various theoretical tenets of SDT and the application of the model to elite sport settings. From an applied perspective, our results suggest that coaches should seek to create training environments that afford athlete choice, understanding, and personal volition should they wish to promote self-determined motivation and well-being.
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Ommundsen, Yngvar; Roberts, Glyn C.; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas & Miller, Blake W.
(2004).
Peer relationships in adolsescent competitive soccer. associations to perceived motivational climate, achievment goals and perfectionism.
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Competitive sport may offer an important context where peer acceptance and friendship can be established and developed. Situational and personal factors may, however, hinder or facilitate the development of constructive peer relations in sport. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the perceived motivational climate, achievement goals, perfectionism and indices of peer relationships in a sample of young male and female Norwegian soccer players. 1785 male (n= 1231) and female (n= 488) experienced soccer players (aged 12-19 years; Mean age = 14.9) taking part in the Norway cup international youth soccer tournament responded to a questionnaire measuring perceived peer acceptance and quality of friendship in soccer, perceived motivational climate in soccer, achievement goals as well as adaptive and maladaptive aspects of perfectionism. Multivariate multiple regression analyses with follow-up canonical correlation analyses were conducted to examine association between the predictor and criterion variable set. The overall multivariate relationship was significant for both genders; Boys, Wilk’s lambda = .74, F (24,4260) = 16,31, P<.001, Girls, Wilk’s lambda = .84, F (24,1668) = 3,34, P<.001. Thus, for both boys and girls, motivational climate, achievement goals, and perfectionism were significantly related to the peer relationship variables. For both boys and girls, one unique significant solution seemed to best describe and explain the relationship between the set of variables. It was found that young female players who perceived a predominantly mastery oriented motivational climate, who were task oriented and scored low on maladaptive perfectionism reported better relations with their peers in soccer. In contrast, young male players perceiving the motivational climate as predominantly performance-oriented, being low on task orientation and high on maladaptive perfectionism reported worse relationships with peers. Results among the young male players suggest that achievement striving characterized by a strong focus on social comparison, besting others and a maladaptive perfectionist focus may be detrimental to the development of constructive peer relations within the team. Results among the female players were of a similar kind as revealed by a significant association between a strong mastery climate, a task goal and the absence of maladaptive perfectionism one the one hand and high level of quality of friendship and social acceptance on the other. Apparently, when players preoccupied with being better than other team members, they may come to look upon each other as competitors within the team and be less willing to invest socially in each other to obtain team success at the expense of their own individual success. Further, maladaptive perfectionists may come to express anger towards fellow players for not performing up to perfectionist standards. This may in turn threaten the development of friendship and peer acceptance.The findings illustrate the importance of motivation on peer acceptance and quality of friendship relations in youth sports.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Stray-Gundersen, Jim; Treasure, Darren C.; Müller, Erich & Schwameder, Hermann
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(2003).
Burnout in elite level athletes: An achievement goal perspective.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Stray-Gundersen, Jim & Treasure, Darren C.
(2003).
Can motivation at season start predict the development of burnout in elite athletes?
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Burnout has been defined as a state of mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion brought on by persistent devotion to a goal, the achievement of which may not be realistic (Freudenberger, & Richelson, 1985). Recently, as inter-disciplinary research has taken a closer look at athlete burnout, some researchers (Gould et al, 1996; Hall et al., 1997) have suggested that “motivation gone awry” may play an important role in the onset of burnout. In the attempt to better understand the determinants of athlete burnout, this study looked at the quality of motivation in elite athletes before the start of the competitive season, and whether it predicted levels of burnout at season’s end. Participants were 45 Norwegian 2002 Winter Olympic Team athletes and 96Norwegian national level athletes competing in Nordic Skiing and Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Speed Skating and Nordic Combined. Athletes ranged from 17 to 32 years of age. More than 50% of the participants were national team members and had already competed at the World Cup or World Championship level. During the month of September 2002, the athletes answered a translated version of the Sport Motivational Scale (SMS; Pelletier et al., 1995). To register levels of athlete burnout, athletes were asked to complete a translated version of the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ; Raedeke & Smith, 2002) within two weeks of season’s end. Results of hierarchical stepwise regression analysis indicated that levels of intrinsic motivation at season start were negatively related, while levels of amotivation were positively related to feeling emotionally and physically exhausted at the end of the season. Amotivation was also positively related to experiencing a reduced sense of accomplishment and a feeling of devaluation of participation in the sport. Levels of introjected regulation at season’s start were positively related to experiencing a reduced sense of accomplishment. Interestingly, no relationship was found between levels of extrinsic motivation and theexperience of exhaustion and devaluation at the end of the season. Healthy levels of intrinsic motivation seem to offer a possible buffer to the experience of burnout while amotivation seems to be a strong predictor. Amotivation has often been seen as a product of burnout, however it could also be argued that it is a motivational antecedent of burnout. Future research focused on understanding the motivational determinants and consequences of burnout should be designed to study the causal and temporalpattern of relationships among motivational constructs and burnout in elite level sport.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C.; Stray-Gundersen, Jim; Treasure, Darren C. & Hall, Howard
(2003).
Can achievement goals and levels of perfectionism predict burnout in elite level athletes?
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of pre-season achievement goal orientations and levels of perfectionism in predicting a sample of elite level athletes’ burnout at season’s end. Participants were 77 national team athletes who competed at the 2002 winter Olympics and 97 junior national athletes competing in five winter sports. Achievement goal orientations were assessed with the POSQ (Roberts & al., 1998) and perfectionism with the MPS (Frost et al., 1990) before the commencement of the race season, while athleteburnout was recorded at season’s end with the ABM (Raedeke & Smith, 2002). Results of three hierarchical stepwise regression procedures showed that task orientation before the start of the competitive season was negatively related to having a reduced sense of accomplishment, being emotionally and physically exhausted, and experiencing sport devaluation at the end of the season. Ego orientation prior to season was positively related to experiencing sport devaluation. Having high personal standards also negatively predicted a reduced sense of accomplishment and experiencing exhaustion at the end of the season. Being concerned over personal mistakes and having doubts about their own action before the start of the racing season was a significant predictor of having a reduced sense of accomplishment at the end of the season. Results showed that motivational dispositions and levels of perfectionism are significantly related to athlete burnout. Further research is needed to evaluate how these findings may influence long-term competition adherence, goal achievement at the elite level, and potential athlete burnout.
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Ommundsen, Yngvar; Roberts, Glyn C.; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas & Treasure, Darren C.
(2002).
Perceived motivational climate in male youth soccer: Relations to social-moral functioning, sportspersonship and team norm perceptions.
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Aim: To investigate the relationship between the perceived motivational climate, sportspersonship, social-moral functioning and team norms in a sample of young male Norwegian soccer players. Hypotheses: It was expected that a performance- oriented motivational climate would be associated with lower levels of social-moral functioning, sportspersonship and the perceptions of team norms that would approve of illegitimate behaviours in soccer. By contrast, a mastery-oriented climate was hypothesised to be beneficial with respect to social-moral functioning, sporstspersonship and morally constructive team norm perceptions. Method: A cross-sectional study of 279 male soccer players (aged 12-14 years) taking part in the international youth soccer tournament, The Norway Cup, was conducted in which players responded to a questionnaire measuring different dimensions of social-moral functioning, including moral judgements,sportspersonship orientations, priority for more mature social-msocial-moral motives or reasons faced with moral dilemmasoral reasoning levels, amoral and sportspersonship behaviours and team norm perceptions. Results: Canonical correlation analysis coupled with multivariate analysis of variance showed that players who perceived the motivational climate as predominantly mastery oriented reported more mature levels of social-moral reasoning and better sportspersonhip behaviours. These players also were less apt to report amoral behaviour and perceive team norms as strongly disapproving of pro-aggressiveness. In contrast, players perceiving the motivational climate as predominantly performance-oriented were more apt to report amoral behaviours in soccer and were less likely to express be sportspersonship orientedbehaviour. Conclusions: The findings illustrate the importance of studying motivational conditions in order to provide an understanding of social-moral functioning, sportspersonship and social-moral team norms in youth soccer.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas & Roberts, Glyn C.
(2002).
Achievement goals, perfectionism and percieved ability in elite Winter sport athletes.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C. & Ommundsen, Yngvar
(2002).
Perfectionism and motivation in youth soccer players: An achievement goal perspective.
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The findings clearly illustrated that certain aspects of perfectionism were related to ego states of involvement.
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Miller, Blake W.; Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C. & Ommundsen, Yngvar
(2002).
Motivational climate and sportspersonship: An investigation of gender differences in competitive youth soccer.
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The purpose of this presentation was to investigate the influence of perceived motivational climate and gender on sportspersonship behavior of competitive youth soccer players. Participants were 512 boy and 202 girl Norwegian youth football players (12-14 years old) competing in an international football tournament. A 2x2x2 (gender, mastery climate high/low, performance climate high/low) MANOVA produced no interaction effects, but main effects for gender, performance climate, and mastery climate did emerge. Post hoc analyses of the simple main effects found that boys did differ from girls in sportspersonship, in that boys were more sportspersonlike than girls on one of the four sportspersonship dimensions. In addition, players perceiving a high mastery climate endorsed sportspersonship more than those players perceiving a low mastery climate, and players perceiving a high performance climate were less likely to endorse sportspersonship than players perceiving a low performance climate. Boys perceiving a strong performance climate reported lower sportspersonship, while girl players who reported perceiving a strong performance/moderate mastery climate reported higher sportspersonship.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C. & Ommundsen, Yngvar
(2002).
Achievement goal orientations, perceived ability and sportspersonship in youth soccer.
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The present study was designed to examine the contribution of goal orientations and the influence of perceived ability as a moderating factor in predicting sportspersonship in competitive youth soccer. Participants were 511 Norwegian male youth soccer players, from age 13 to 16, participating in the Norway Cup International Football Tournament, and male and female participants in the following year’s competition. Findings revealed that high task oriented participants consistently endorsed sportspersonship. However, participants who were high in ego orientation and high in task orientation only partially endorsed low sportspersonship. Perceived ability was a significant factor in that players high in ego orientation and low in perceived ability expressed the lowest respect for rules and officials and endorsed cheating behavior to reach their goals. In contrast, participants high in perceived ability and low in ego orientation expressed the highest level of respect for rules and officials. In this study, being high or low in ego orientation had a significant effect on sportspersonship.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas
(2001).
Moral development in youth soccer.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C. & Ommundsen, Yngvar
(2001).
Explaining the moral behavior of youth soccer players: considering achievement goals and perception of ability.
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Lemyre, Pierre-Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C. & Ommundsen, Yngvar
(2001).
Achievement goals and moral functioning in sport : a quadrant analysis.
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Sport federations around the planet are reacting to numerous cheating scandals. In order to develop efficient preventive measures to lower the incidence of cheating in sport, it is necessary to analyse the problem from its roots and find out the motivational parameters leading to low moral behaviour. Recent evidence (Roberts et al., 2000) has revealed that achievement goals influence moral functioning and behaviour of youth sport participants in competitive sport. Research has also indicated that when young male sport participants are high in ego orientation they express lower level of moral reasoning and are more likely to endorse cheating behaviours in order to win (Lemyre et al., 2000). In attempting to understand the contribution of orthogonal achievement goals profiles, the purpose of the current study was to provide a more complete picture of the relationship between achievement goal orientations and sportspersonship. Participants were 1023 young Norwegian soccer players, from age 13 to 16,competing in the Norway Cup International Soccer tournament. Achievement goals and moral functioning were measured with the POSQ (Roberts et al., 1998) and the Multidimensional Sportspersonship Orientations Scale (MSOS; Vallerand & Provencher, 1997) respectively. The scales demonstrated acceptable reliability. Results from a quadrant analysis indicated a strong relationship between the distinct motivational profiles and the sportspersonship dimensions. Clearly, high ego-low task oriented male youthsoccer players expressed lower levels of sportspersonship than players with any other motivational profiles. These new findings strongly support the suggestion that different achievement goal dispositions generate qualitatively different patterns of moral functioning.