title: A longitudinal examination of coach and peer motivational climates in youth sport: implications for moral attitudes, well-being, and behavioral investment.
abstract: Embedded in achievement goal theory (Ames, 1992; Meece, Anderman, & Anderman, 2006), this study examined how perceptions of coach and peer motivational climate in youth sport predicted moral attitudes, emotional well-being, and indices of behavioral investment in a sample of British adolescents competing in regional leagues. We adopted a longitudinal perspective, taking measures at the middle and the end of a sport season, as well as at the beginning of the following season. Multilevel modeling analyses showed that perceptions of task-involving peer and coach climates were predictive of more adaptive outcomes than were perceptions of ego-involving peer and coach climates. Predictive effects differed as a function of time and outcome variable under investigation. The results indicate the importance of considering peer influence in addition to coach influence when examining motivational climate in youth sport.
authors.affiliation: College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. n.ntoumanis@bham.ac.uk
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ntoumanis
authors.forename: Ian M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Cecilie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thøgersen-Ntoumani
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009013:Morale; D010379:Peer Group; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires