Intrinsic Motivation: Knowledge, Achievement, and Experimentation in Sports Science Students—Relations with Emotional Intelligence

Sports Achievement Motivation and Sports Competition Anxiety: A Relationship Study

Anxiety and Motivation are important psychological variables in sports and its need to achieve high level of competition. Without knowledge of these two variables athletes cannot give best in competition. The aim of study was to find out the relationship between Anxiety and Motivation of intervarsity Badminton players. The total sample consisted of twenty players age ranged from 17 to 25 years....

Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth

relationship between academic activity, emotional intelligence, achievement motivation; contextual variables and academic achievement among high school students

the purposes of this study were to examine the relations between emotional intelligence, achievement motivation. contextual variables and academic activity on student's academic achievement. participants were 415 (261 females, and 154 males) eleventh grade students. in multiple regression analysis, student's gender and age, mother's education, parental involvement. achievement mo...

Do Combat Sports Develop Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional intelligence, neuroticism, and extroversion were studied in boxers, judokas, and non-athlete controls. The results based on the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale and Eysenck Personality Inventory showed that in understanding their own emotions boxers scored higher than judokas and controls (effect sizes d=.72, and .47). In appraising others’ emotions boxers and judokas did not...

Achievement goals and intrinsic motivation: a meta-analytic review.

This article presents a meta-analysis of the experimental literature that has examined the effect of performance and mastery achievement goals on intrinsic motivation. Summary analyses provided support for the hypothesis that the pursuit of performance goals has an undermining effect on intrinsic motivation relative to the pursuit of mastery goals. Moderator analyses were conducted in an attemp...