title: Effects on archery performance of manipulating metamotivational state and felt arousal.
abstract: This study investigated the effect of the four different combinations of metamotivational state and felt arousal level (telic-low, paratelic-low, telic-high, paratelic-high) on archery performance. Skilled, average, and novice archers (n = 28) were voluntary subjects, randomly divided into 2 groups, balanced for ability. Each group performed 2 out of the 4 experimental conditions. In this reversal theory-based field experiment, telic and paratelic metamotivational states and arousal level were manipulated prior to archery performance. The hypothesis that archery performance would be superior under telic-low arousal conditions was rejected, but evidence pointed to the possible importance of hedonic tone in performance. Post boc analysis showed differences between combined high (telic-low, paratelic-high) and combined low (telic-low, paratelic-high) hedonic-tone groups which fell short of significance. This observation is taken as justification for further exploration of the relationship between hedonic tone and sports performance.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health and Sports Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hirata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takai
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*