Objectives The purpose of this study was to systematically review and appraise the
achievement goal literature (1990–2014) with a view to identifying the intra-individual …

Here we provide, within a social-cognitive framework, a critical review of research on the
motivational impact of different psychological climates in physical activity. Motivational …

Research in the coaching effectiveness area has been conducted under the general
assumption that coaches exert a large influence not only on the performance and behavior …

We undertook two studies to determine the validity and reliability of the revised Perceived
Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire (PMCSQ-2). In Study 1, 201 female athletes …

The purpose of this study was to test a motivational model of sport dropout that integrates the
four‐stage causal sequence proposed by the Hierarchical Model of Vallerand (1997) and …

Our goal in this chapter is to comprehensively review the literature on motivation and sport
behavior. To do this, we describe theories or conceptual models of motivation that have …

The mastery approach to coaching is a cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to
promote a mastery-involving motivational climate, shown in previous research to be related …

This article describes the development and validation of the Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS-2),
a multidimensional measure of cognitive and somatic trait anxiety in sport performance …

The aim of this paper was to systematically review the literature on coping in sport,
examining evidence for both the trait and process perspectives, the types of coping …

Although sport is played with the body, it is won in the mind. Inspired by this idea, the second
edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive critical introduction to sport and …