Exploring Relationships Between Motivational Climate, Parental Involvement, Fear of Failure, and Goal Orientations in Youth Club Soccer Athletes

<p>Youth athletes participate in youth sport for various reasons. Parents, coaches, and others in one’s environment create the atmosphere that can promote or inhibit such participation. However, one’s motivation towards achievement in sport can at times be negatively influenced by these factors when they fear failure. The aim of the current study was to explore the relationships between environmental factors and goal orientations, while considering fear of failure. Select youth soccer athletes reported that mastery goal orientations were higher when they perceived a task-involving climate and parental involvement was moderate. Performance orientations were higher when parent involvement was high, athletes perceived an ego-involving climate, and they had higher fear of failure. Additionally, fear of failure aided in understanding these relationships through partial correlations. Without considering fear of failure, the relationships between climate and parents with goal orientations are incomplete. These findings are paramount to improving and sustaining youth sport participation.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Kinesiology (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (restricted to Georgia Southern)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Health and Kinesiology

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Schlote, Robert

Contributors dc:contributor

• Brandonn Harris
• Daniel Czech

• ETD
• Motivation
• Achievement Goal Theory
• Pressure
• Select Sport
• Youth Sport
• and Sport Psychology
• Sports Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1319

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-2384