Schüler
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| Title / Titel | The Motive–Incentive Fit in Sports | ||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Motivation is an interaction between a person’s motives and the incentives of a situation (McClelland, 1985). For example, an individual with a high achievement motive is “incited” by situations characterized by achievement incentives but not by situations without achievement incentives or by situations characterized by other incentives (e.g., affiliation incentives). Vice versa, an individual with a high affiliation motive is only “incited” by situations characterized by affiliation incentives. In the present research, we hypothesize that the goodness of motive-incentive fit predicts flow experience, which is defined as an optimal state of motivation. A series of correlational and experimental studies in the domain of sport shows that individuals whose motives fit to the incentives of the sport situation reported more flow than individuals whose motives did not fit to the sport incentives. The results are discussed in terms of the broader concept of a person x environment fit in sports. | ||||
| Publications / Publikationen | Schüler, J. & Engeser, S. (2009). Incentives and flow-experience in learning settings and the moderating role of individual differences. In Wosnitza, M., Karabenick, S.A., Efklides, A. & Nenninger, P. (Eds.), Contemporary Motivation Research: From Global to Local Perspectives. Göttingen: Hogrefe. Schüler, J., Sheldon, K.M., & Fröhlich, S. M. (2010). Implicit need for achievement moderates the relationship between felt competence and subsequent motivation. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 1-12. |
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| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | motive, sport, incentive, basic need satisfaction | ||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Aug 2008 to Dec 2012 |