IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v17y2020i9p2980-d350314.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Perceived Competence, Achievement Goals, and Return-To-Sport Outcomes: A Mediation Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Elyse D’Astous

    (College of Health, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA)

  • Leslie Podlog

    (College of Health, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA)

  • Ryan Burns

    (College of Health, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA)

  • Maria Newton

    (College of Health, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA)

  • Bradley Fawver

    (School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA)

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the potential mediating effect of achievement goals on perceived competence and return-to-sport outcomes among college athletes sustaining a sport injury. Altogether, 75 male and female college athletes from the United States who returned to sport after having missed competition for an average of 3 weeks due to injury, completed valid and reliable inventories measuring perceived competence, achievement goals, and return-to-sport outcomes. Results indicated that task-approach goals significantly mediated the relationship between perceived competence and a renewed sport perspective. These data suggest the importance of promoting competence beliefs and a task-oriented focus among athletes returning to sport following athletic injury. From a practical standpoint, clinicians can foster competence perceptions by integrating progressive physical tests assessing functionality and sport-specific skills/abilities. Furthermore, these data suggest that coaches, physical therapists, and significant others may do well to use language that orients injured athletes towards attaining success as opposed to avoiding failure, to emphasize effort, task completion, and correct form, and to avoid comments that compare athletes to others or to their preinjury standards of performance. From a theoretical standpoint, our mediation findings extend previous achievement goal research into the sport injury domain, further highlighting the importance of task-approach goals.

Suggested Citation

  • Elyse D’Astous & Leslie Podlog & Ryan Burns & Maria Newton & Bradley Fawver, 2020. "Perceived Competence, Achievement Goals, and Return-To-Sport Outcomes: A Mediation Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(9), pages 1-15, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:9:p:2980-:d:350314
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/9/2980/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/9/2980/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Nico W Van Yperen & Monica Blaga & Tom Postmes, 2014. "A Meta-Analysis of Self-Reported Achievement Goals and Nonself-Report Performance across Three Achievement Domains (Work, Sports, and Education)," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(4), pages 1-16, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Nico W Van Yperen & Eric F Rietzschel & Kiki M M De Jonge, 2014. "Blended Working: For Whom It May (Not) Work," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(7), pages 1-8, July.
    2. Gottfredson, Ryan K. & Reina, Christopher S., 2021. "Illuminating the foundational role that mindsets should play in leadership development," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 64(4), pages 439-451.
    3. Nicolas Mascret & Martin Nicolleau & Isabelle Ragot-Court, 2020. "Development and validation of a scale assessing achievement goals in driving," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(3), pages 1-15, March.
    4. Arjan Dam & Gera Noordzij & Marise Born, 2020. "Thriving Under Uncertainty: The Effect of Achievement Goal Orientation on Job Insecurity and Flourishing," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 150(2), pages 659-678, July.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:9:p:2980-:d:350314. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.