Open AccessTeam Achievement Goals and Sports Team Performance
Author(s) -
Heleen van Mierlo,
Edwin A. J. van Hooft
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
small group research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.755
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1552-8278
pISSN - 1046-4964
DOI - 10.1177/1046496420913119
Subject(s) - psychology , team effectiveness , league , interdependence , team composition , team sport , applied psychology , psychological safety , variance (accounting) , teamwork , social psychology , athletes , operations management , management , engineering , political science , astronomy , medicine , physics , business , law , physical therapy , economics , accounting
This study focuses on team achievement goals and performance outcomes in interdependent sports teams. Team achievement goals reflect shared motivational states that exist exclusively at the team level. In a survey among 310 members of 29 premier-league field-hockey teams, team-level performance-approach, performance-avoidance, mastery-approach, and mastery-avoidance achievement goals explained 69% of the overall variance in team performance and 16% after controlling for previous performance. Teams performed better to the extent they were more approach- and less avoidance oriented in terms of both mastery and performance, although mastery-approach goals related to early-season team performance rather than predicting later changes in team performance.
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