Elite athletes: why does the 'fire' burn so brightly?

By Clifford J. Mallett. 2004

251 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. D. Fletcher
2. Mustafa Sarkar
3. P. McCarthy
4. D. Gucciardi
5. J. Dimmock
6. S. Gordon
7. M. Kawabata
8. C. Wagstaff

In Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

1. Mustafa Sarkar
2. D. Fletcher
3. P. McCarthy
4. Andrés Otero-Forero
5. M. Kawabata
6. P. Newcombe
7. S. Jackson
8. Kristy Mclean

In Social Psychology

1. D. Fletcher
2. Mustafa Sarkar
3. D. Gucciardi
4. J. Dimmock
5. S. Gordon
6. C. Wagstaff
7. Kristy Mclean
8. P. McCarthy

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluation of a Mental Toughness Training Program for Youth-Aged Australian Footballers: I. A Quantitative Analysis (2009, background): “Elite athletes recognize the need to train and work hard ( Mallett & Hanrahan, 2004 ) and Olympic champions have highlighted a hard work ethic as a key psychological characteristic in their success ( Gould et al, 2002 ).”
• Positive emotion in sport performance: current status and future directions (2011, background): “The folds of research explain in unison that greater sport enjoyment is associated with greater sport commitment among youth (Scanlan, Carpenter, Lobel, & Simons, 1993 ; Scanlan, Carpenter, Schmidt, Simons, & Keeler, 1993 ; Scanlan & Simons, 1992) and elite sport performers (Mallett & Hanrahan, 2”
• Sport motivation scale-6 (SMS-6): A revised six-factor sport motivation scale (2007, methodology): “Although limited research has examined integrated regulated behaviours in sport, Mallett and Hanrahan (2004) did find that integrated regulation was a major source of motivation for a small group of elite track and field athletes.”
• What motivates the motivators? An examination of sports coaches (2012, background): “Indeed, the high levels of self-determined motivation expressed by coaches in this sample may act as a buffer against the negative effects of their non-self-determined motivations (Mallett and Hanrahan 2004; Gillet, Vallerand, and Rosnet 2009).”
• A review of competitive sport motivation research (2016, unknown): “Similarly, Mallett and Hanrahan (2004) reported that Olympic and World Championship level athletes exhibit self-determined forms of motivation, and are achievement oriented, highly driven, and self-believing.”
• Psychological resilience in sport performers: a review of stressors and protective factors (2014, background): “To provide a greater insight into the motivation of elite sport performers in less controlling social conditions, Mallett and Hanrahan (2004) explored the motivational processes of elite track and field athletes in Australia using semi-structured interviews.”
• A grounded theory of psychological resilience in Olympic champions (2012, result): “However, in support of previous research investigating the motivation of elite performers (Mallett & Hanrahan, 2004), resilient athletes appear to be able to internalize and integrate more self-determined forms of extrinsic motivation.”
• Organizational psychology in elite sport: Its emergence, application and future (2009, background): “All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2009.03.009 largely on the intra-individual mental states and processes of world-class performers, including their motivations (Mallett & Hanrahan, 2004), beliefs (Hays, Maynard, Thomas, & Bawden, 2007), and emotions (Pensgaard & Duda, 2003).”