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Motivation and Engagement in Music and Sport: Testing a Multidimensional Framework in Diverse Performance Settings
Author(s) -
Martin Andrew J.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00482.x
Subject(s) - psychology , generalizability theory , disengagement theory , cognition , goal orientation , structural equation modeling , social psychology , anxiety , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , gerontology , medicine , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience , psychiatry
The present study assessed the application of a multidimensional model of motivation and engagement (the Motivation and Engagement Wheel) and its accompanying instrumentation (the Motivation and Engagement Scale) to the music and sport domains. Participants were 463 young classical musicians ( N =224) and sportspeople ( N =239). In both music and sport samples, the data confirmed the good fit of the four hypothesized higher‐order dimensions and their 11 first‐order dimensions: adaptive cognitions (self‐efficacy, valuing, mastery orientation), adaptive behaviors (planning, task management, persistence), impeding/maladaptive cognitions (uncertain control, anxiety, failure avoidance), and maladaptive behaviors (self‐handicapping, disengagement). Multigroup tests of factor invariance showed that in terms of underlying motivational constructs and the composition of and relationships among these constructs, key subsamples are not substantially different. Moreover—and of particular relevance to issues around the generalizability of the framework—the factor structure for music and sport samples was predominantly invariant.