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Sport Psychologists And Social Climate Differences

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Sport Psychologists have studied not only how goal orientations and perceived ability work together to influence motivation of physical activity participants, but also how the social climate influences one’s goal orientations and motivation level (Ntoumanis & Biddle, 1999). Some psychologists now contend, for example, that the social climates of achievement settings can vary significantly in several dimensions. These include such things as the tasks that learners are asked to perform, student-teacher authority patterns, recognition systems, student ability groupings, evaluation procedures, and ties allotted for activities to be performed (Ames, 1992). Most importantly, researchers have found that motivational climate influence that the types

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