Team Achievement Goals and Sports Team Performance

This study focuses on team achievement goals and performance outcomes in interdependent sports teams. Team achievement goals reflect shared motivational states that exist exclusively at the team level. In a survey among 310 members of 29 premier-league field-hockey teams, team-level performance-appr...

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Published in:Small group research 2020-10, Vol.51 (5), p.581-615
Main Authors: Van Mierlo, Heleen, Van Hooft, Edwin A. J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achievement
Approach-Avoidance
Group performance
Hockey
Objectives
Sports
Team sports
Teams
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Summary:This study focuses on team achievement goals and performance outcomes in interdependent sports teams. Team achievement goals reflect shared motivational states that exist exclusively at the team level. In a survey among 310 members of 29 premier-league field-hockey teams, team-level performance-approach, performance-avoidance, mastery-approach, and mastery-avoidance achievement goals explained 69% of the overall variance in team performance and 16% after controlling for previous performance. Teams performed better to the extent they were more approach- and less avoidance oriented in terms of both mastery and performance, although mastery-approach goals related to early-season team performance rather than predicting later changes in team performance.
ISSN:1046-4964
1552-8278
DOI:10.1177/1046496420913119