Achievement Goals in Sport: A Critique of Conceptual and Measurement Issues

By C. Harwood, L. Hardy, A. Swain. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Social Psychology

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Sport Psychology: Contemporary Themes (2004, background): “Like other areas of research dealing with individual differences, clarity as to whether states or traits are being measured should be paramount, as recent debates in the literature illustrate (Harwood et al., 2000; Treasure et al., 2001).”
Understanding the impact of intrinsic versus extrinsic goal framing on exercise performance: The conflicting role of task and ego involvement (2007, background): “…Pintrich & Schunk, 2002) have suggested that there exists substantial agreement regarding the concept of performance-approach goals.2 1Notably, Harwoord, Hardy, and Swain (2000) suggested that trying to attain an intra-personal standard does not reflect task involvement, as suggested by…”
Understanding motivation in sport: An experimental test of achievement goal and self determination theories (2006, background): “Whereas goal orientations are assessed at the contextual level of measurement, better prediction of behavior is likely to come from assessing situational goals (Harwood et al., 2000; Harwood & Swain, 1998).”
A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Goal Involvement States in Sport (2004, background): “These findings provide additional insights into the debate about orthogonality (Harwood & Hardy, 2001; Harwood et al., 2000) vs.”
Correlates of achievement goal orientations in physical activity: A systematic review of research (2003, background): “Narrative reviews have largely concluded that a high task orientation is “positive” or adaptive, either singly or in combination with a high ego orientation (4, 25), although the field has not been unchallenged in terms of conceptual and measurement issues (52) and methodology (6).”