Direction for Future Research in Sport and PE Motivation
Posted: May 24, 2012 Filed under: Bibliography Leave a comment »Ntoumanis, N. (2012). A self-determination theory perspective on motivation in sport and physical education. In G.C. Roberts and D.C. Treasure (Eds.), Advances in motivation in sport and exercise (3rd Ed.), pp.91-128, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
The author identified the following as avenues for future research:
“…whether and how (e.g., independently or jointly) specific autonomy-supportive behavres are related to the satisfaction of each psychological need and indirectly to autonomous motivation.”
“Inclusion of biological markers of well-being such as cortisol responses in examining the relationship between psychological need satisfaction and athletes’ welfare.”
“… how social context influence psychological need satisfaction and autonomous motivation by promoting the satisfaction of one conception of competence rather than another.”
“… relationships between sociocontextual factors, need satisfaction or thwarting, motivational regulations, stress appraisals, associated emotional and coping efforts and performance, well-being, and cognitive outcomes” using integrative models of coping and motivation.”
“…how SDT could be related to other frameworks of self-regulation or self-control.”
“…the role of goal motives in adaptive goal-setting pursuit.”
“…nonconscious processes in the activation and direction of motivated behavior.”
On Tayyab’s first draft of literature review
Posted: May 13, 2012 Filed under: Assignments 1 Comment »Tayyab and I paired up for this assignment.
Tayyab has an extensive review of relevant literature on his topic and did a very good job in providing detailed summaries of the articles. Here are my comments based on the rubric used in the previous review.
- Based on the manuscript format, several components were missing (e.g., running head, page numbers) and headings were not used to organize the flow of the manuscript.
- There was no introduction to forecast the remainder of the review.
- The last paragraph provided a conclusion on the need for the current study but lacks sufficient persuasion.
- Some in-text citation were incorrect (e.g., use of “and” instead of “&” in parenthetical format citation).
- Not all references were formatted correctly.
- The word “so” were used several times and in my opinion, made the statements informal.
- Flow can be improved by using headings and linking words.
- Summaries of the articles in paragraph 2-10 were too detailed that I didn’t spend a lot of time reviewing those. The topic is interesting but it could still be improved to hook reader’s interest. Six out of the 9 which were extensively summarized were current so I think this point is good.
- The summaries did not mention gaps identified by the articles though which I think are very useful because it will provide support as to why this study is important. On a positive note, strengths and weaknesses of the studies were identified.
- The language, in general, met the academic genre. However, as pointed out earlier, the use of “so” made some of the statements informal.
Details of my review can be downloaded here: Tayyab 2012 literature-review-first-draft1 with JYC comments.
Writing research articles
Posted: May 8, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »This was shared to me by a friend from the Philippines. It’s a short article with invaluable tips on how to write research articles. Read page 11-14.
http://www.unl.edu/gradstudies/current/dev/newsletter/GradConnections-200911.pdf
The website also has other articles about surviving grad school.
Measures of Perceived Autonomy Support
Posted: April 28, 2012 Filed under: Bibliography, Reflection Leave a comment »Hagger, M., Chatzisarantis, N. L. D., Hein V., Pihu, M., Soós, I., &Karsai, I. (2007).The perceived autonomy support for exercise settings (PASSES): Development, validity, and cross-cultural invariance in young people. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 8, 632-653
The Perceived Autonomy Support for Exercise Settings (PASSES) is a 12-item instrument that can be used to measure students’ perceived autonomy for exercise from three different sources (i.e, PE teachers, parents, and peers). The PASSES was developed with leisure-time exercise as the target behavior. It demonstrated good validity and internal consistency, and stable factor structure across different cultures.
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I was thinking why Vlanchopoulos did not use this instrument to assess perceived autonomy support (PAS). Hagger and colleagues argued that the instruments used in previous studies, including the modified-version of the Sports Climate Questionnaire used by Vlanchopoulos, had not undergone rigorous evaluation hence their validity are still unsupported. My hypothesis is that Vlanchopoulos wanted a short inventory to assess PAS therefore continued to use the SCQ even a more valid instrument has been developed. Also, the main objective of Vlanchopoulos’ study was the validation of the BPNPE scale which in itself consists of 12 items. Perhaps, in the future, we can test the equivalence of these two scales by looking at the relationship of the PAS scores obtained from SCQ and PASSES. A simple correlation can be performed and if the relationship is significant (p<0.05) and strong (r>0.70), then the instruments are equivalent and either can be used to measure PAS. I still need to read more about this process though.
Role of basic needs in PE
Posted: April 25, 2012 Filed under: Bibliography Leave a comment »Barkoukis, V., Hagger, M.S., Lambropoulos, G., &Tsorbatzoudis, H. (2010).Extending the trans-contextual model in physical education and leisure-time contexts: Examining the role of basic psychological needs satisfaction. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 80, 647-670.
- Perceived autonomy support has significant and direct effects on perceived competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
- Perceived competence and autonomy had significant effects on autonomous motivation, but not relatedness.
- Psychological need satisfaction of competence and autonomy mediated the effects of perceived autonomy support on autonomous motivation.
- Perceived competence and relatedness scales exhibited low internal consistencies. Hence, there is a need for more reliable measures of these constructs.
- Future research should also look at the influence of other sources of autonomy support (e.g., peers, parents) on need satisfaction in PE.
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