Abstract

The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether the motivational climates (MCs) drawn from achievement goal and self-determination theories would affect perceived competence and the use of claimed self-handicapping. Specifically, this study examined the effects of performance MC, mastery MC and need-supportive MC on these two variables. In the context of high school physical education, 37 participants had the opportunity to claim handicaps before performing an isometric resistance task in a given MC. This procedure was repeated three times at one-week intervals so that all participants were assigned to each of the three MCs. Consistent with our hypotheses, students claimed handicaps less in the need-supportive than in the performance MC. In addition, when data from girls and boys were separated, girls reported significantly greater perceived competence in the need-supportive MC than in the performance and mastery MCs. The theoretical and applied implications of these finding are discussed.

摘要

本实验的目的是调查从成就目标和自我决定理论得出的动机气氛（MC）是否会影响感知能力和声称的自我障碍的使用。具体而言，本研究检查了绩效MC，精通MC和需要支持的MC对这两个变量的影响。在高中体育教育中，有37名参与者有机会在给定的MC中执行等距阻力任务之前申领残障。以一周为间隔重复此过程三次，以便将所有参与者分配到三个MC中的每一个。与我们的假设一致，学生在需求支持方面的障碍比表演MC少。此外，当男孩和女孩的数据分开时，女孩报告说，在需要支持的MC中，感知能力明显强于表现和精通MC。讨论了这些发现的理论和应用意义。