Passion and performance attainment in sport

By Robert J. Vallerand, Geneviève A. Mageau, A. Elliot, Alexandre Dumais, Marc Demers, F. Rousseau. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Pathways of Passion (2014, background): “Past works analyzing the effects of passion on individual behavior have controlled for certain demographic variables such as sex and experience (Chen et al., 2009; Vallerand et al., 2008; Vallerand et al., 2007).”
The dualistic model of passion for work: Discriminate and predictive validity with work engagement and workaholism (2015, background): “Furthermore, most studies that included performance as an outcome variable have found that the relationship between passion and performance is mediated by either the goals set, the persistence, engagement, or deliberation to meet these goals, and the experiences that follows the passion (Bonneville-”
Giving and receiving autonomy support in a high-stakes sport context: A field-based experiment during the 2012 London Paralympic Games☆ (2015, methodology): “To assess job satisfaction, we used the 5-item Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985) that has been adapted successfully for the context of elite sports (Vallerand et al., 2008).”
When winning is everything: on passion, identity, and aggression in sport. (2009, background): “…concentration, absorption, and ﬂow during activity engagement (Mageau, Vallerand, Rousseau, Ratelle, & Provencher, 2005; Vallerand et al., 2003, Study 1), as well as subjective well-being (Rousseau & Vallerand, 2003, 2008; Vallerand et al., 2008, Study 2; Vallerand et al., 2007, Studies 1 and 2).”
The Impact of Entrepreneurial Passion on the Entrepreneurial Intention; Moderating Impact of Perception of University Support (2021, result): “The past studies had been much in line with the conceptualization of entrepreneurial passion as harmonious, resulting in positive affect and engaging willingly in a chosen enjoyable activity (Vallerand et al. 2003; Mageau and Vallerand 2007; Vallerand et al. 2008).”
Passion and habitual entrepreneurship (2015, background): “, 2007), whereas athletes work hard to improve difficult physical techniques (Vallerand et al., 2008).”
Passion and burnout in elite junior soccer players: The mediating role of self-determined motivation. (2011, background): “However, research in sport has supported the contention that harmonious and obsessive passions are likely to have distinct motivational consequences (Vallerand et al., 2003, Vallerand, Rousseau, Grouzet, Dumais, & Grenier, 2006; Vallerand et al., 2008).”
A meta-analytic review of the approach-avoidance achievement goals and performance relationships in the sport psychology literature (2015, background): “28 Vallerand et al.(32) (2008) 45 female and 22 male Canadian competitive water-polo and synchronized swimming athletes (age: 16.”
“Work is my passion”: The different affective, behavioural, and cognitive consequences of harmonious and obsessive passion toward work (2011, background): “The reliability and validity of the two-factor passion scale has been supported in various activities such as sport (e.g., Vallerand et al., 2006; Vallerand et al., 2008) and self-reported favourite activities (e.”
Passion Does Make a Difference in People's Lives: A Look at Well‐Being in Passionate and Non‐Passionate Individuals (2009, background): “…from childhood to later adulthood (e.g. Mageau & Vallerand, 2007; Mageau et al., in press; Philippe & Vallerand, 2007; Rousseau & Vallerand, 2008; Vallerand et al., 2008) and that it was only slightly affected by gender differences (e.g. Mageau & Vallerand, 2007; Vallerand et al., 2008, Studies…”
The role of passion for teaching in intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes. (2008, background): “…has been shown to lead to a number of adaptive outcomes, including enhanced subjective well-being and vitality (Rousseau & Vallerand, 2003, 2006; Vallerand et al., 2006, 2007, 2008), reduced depression and anxiety, positive affective experiences at work (Vallerand & Houlfort, 2003), and…”
Validation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) in Taiwanese Undergraduate Students (2009, background): “To promote a more proactive approach to understanding people, some researchers directed their effort to examining positive psychological constructs such as resilience (Yorgason et al. 2007), mindfulness (Kee and Wang 2008), humor (Olson et al. 2005), passion ( Vallerand et al. 2008 ), and positive a”
On Passion for Life Activities (2010, methodology): “We conducted an additional study (Vallerand et al., 2008a, Study 2) in order to examine the psychological processes through which passion contributes to deliberate practice, and indirectly contributes to performance.”
The roles of autonomy support and harmonious and obsessive passions in educational persistence (2013, background): “Obsessively passionate students in turn seem to display higher levels of both approach- and avoidance- performance goals (Vallerand et al., 2007, 2008).”
Passion Isn't Always a Good Thing: Examining Entrepreneurs' Network Centrality and Financial Performance with a Dualistic Model of Passion (2014, positive): “…differentiated set of results, in that while harmonious passion has been consistently and positively linked to performance, obsessive passion demonstrates a weaker and sometimes non-significant relationship with performance (e.g., Ho et al., 2011; Vallerand et al., 2008; Vallerand et al., 2007).”
Understanding the work passion–performance relationship: The mediating role of organizational identification and moderating role of fit at work (2015, background): “Other work in sports suggests that both harmonious and obsessive passion are positive predictors of deliberate practice, which, in turn, is a positive predictor of performance (Ericsson et al., 1993; Vallerand et al., 2008).”