ETD RECORD
Measuring the personality side of motivation :development and validation of the Competitive Motivational Styles Questionnaire
Citation
Gut, Eva.. (2010). Measuring the personality side of motivation :development and validation of the Competitive Motivational Styles Questionnaire. Theses and Dissertations Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections. https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/etd/items/etd_159.html
- Title:
- Measuring the personality side of motivation :development and validation of the Competitive Motivational Styles Questionnaire
- Author:
- Gut, Eva.
- Date:
- 2010
- Keywords:
- Motivation (Psychology)--Examinations--Design and construction Athletes--Psychology--Examinations--Design and construction
- Program:
- Education
- Abstract:
- Motivation is an abstract phenomenon to study, with both internal and external factors affecting it. Competitive motivational styles identify athletes' typical motivational responses to demanding competitive situations to help determine how athletes will respond in various demanding, competitive situations (Burton & Weiss, 2008). Identifying athletes' motivational styles will aid in predicting how athletes will respond to specific situations and can be utilized to help athletes perform in a more consistent manner. At present, very few instruments that identify motivational styles exist. Those that do are often simplistic and do not target all of the characteristics essential to identifying motivational styles.;The purposes of this study were twofold. First, this study aimed to support the existence of four hypothesized motivational styles. Second, the development and validation of a questionnaire to identify these four motivational styles was strived for. After three studies, the Competitive Motivational Styles Questionnaire was reduced from a 122 to 23-item questionnaire. The model produced the four hypothesized motivational styles, indentified based on six characteristics including: task choice, effort expenditure, response to failure, goal priority, athletic identity, and definitions of success and failure. Results indicated a good fining model for the CMSQ (e.g., RMSEA = .039, AIC = 407, NFI = .91, CFI = .97, SRMR = .067, and GFI = .90). Results of bivariate and canonical correlations indicated that CMSQ items were identifying the characteristics they were designed to target, providing support for the initial construct validity of the CMSQ. These results provide support for the existence of four motivational styles and the use of the CMSQ to identify them.
- Description:
- Thesis (Ph. D., Education)--University of Idaho, August 2010.
- Major Professor:
- Damon Burton.
- Defense Date:
- August 2010.
- Type:
- Text
- Format Original:
- x, 170 leaves :ill. ;29 cm.
- Format:
- record
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