Fear of failure and achievement goals in sport: Addressing the issue of the chicken and the egg

By David E. Conroy, A. Elliot. 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Investigating grit and its relations with college students’ self-regulated learning and academic achievement (2015, background): “Motives linked to wanting to achieve success and to avoid failure both have been used to explain more context specific aspects of students’ motivation, especially their achievement goals (Bartels et al. 2010; Chen et al. 2009; Conroy and Elliot 2004; Elliot and Church 1997; Elliot and McGregor 2001;”
Success and Failure, Fear of Failure, and Coping Responses of Adolescent Academy Football Players (2010, methodology): “We chose the PFAI for this study for two main reasons: (a) it conceptualizes and operationalizes fear of failure as a multidimensional construct; and, (b) it has been subjected to rigorous psychometric evaluations of validity and reliability with youth samples (eg, mean age 13 years; see Conroy, Co”
Fear of failure as a mediator of the relationship between obstacles and nascent entrepreneurial activity—An experimental approach ☆ (2017, background): “…possibility of, or actually experience, failure in a wide array of situations during their lifetimes (e.g., academic, sports, or job settings), they build mental connections between these failure-relevant situations and the motive to avoid failure (Conroy and Elliot, 2004; Elliot and Church, 1997).”
Age-Related Differences in Achievement Goal Differentiation. (2009, background): “Fear of failure repeatedly emerged as a common antecedent of both performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals in their research (Conroy & Elliot, 2004; Conroy, Elliot, & Hofer, 2003; Elliot & Church, 1997; Elliot & McGregor, 2001).”
Self-determination Theory and the psychology of exercise (2008, background): “…domain has been relatively sparse and have largely focused on competitive sport settings (Halvari & Kjormo, 1999; Cury et al., 2002a; Conroy et al., 2003; Conroy, 2004; Conroy & Elliot, 2004), with only two focusing on the health-related exercise domain (Cury et al., 2003; Ommundsen, 2004).”
On the measurement of achievement goals: critique, illustration, and application (2008, background): “Prior research has linked mastery-avoidance goals to fear of failure alone (Conroy & Elliot, 2004; Elliot & McGregor, 2001 ); it took a cleansing of negative affect from the original mastery-avoidance items for the conceptually sensible link between the need for achievement and these mastery-based…”
Perfectionism and achievement goals in athletes: Relations with approach and avoidance orientations in mastery and performance goals (2008, background): “…goals in combination with mastery-approach goals, whereas negative reactions to imperfection were associated with performance-approach goals in combination with mastery-avoidance and performance-avoidance goals, all of which have been found to be related to fear of failure (Conroy & Elliot, 2004).”
The developmental origins of fear of failure in adolescent athletes: Examining parental practices (2010, background): “…avoidance motivational tendency involves cognitive, behavioral, and emotional experiences and typically prompts the adoption of avoidance-based goals and strategies (e.g., performance-avoidance goals, self-handicapping, low achievement) that, in turn, exert adverse effects (Conroy & Elliot, 2004).”
How Do Students' Mastery and Performance Goals Relate to Math Anxiety?. (2011, background): “…studying and test anxiety; performance-approach goals are linked to surface-level processing; and performance-avoidance goals are positively linked to test anxiety and negatively linked to intrinsic motivation, exam performance, and GPA (Conroy & Elliot, 2004; Finney, Pieper, & Barron, 2004).”