Week 9 Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is passion?
Passion is viewed as a strong inclination towards a personally meaningful and highly valued activity that one loves, finds self defining and to which substantial time and energy is invested.
What is passionate activity?
Becomes self defining
Central to the athletes identity
The activity is part of who the person is
What is maladaptive passion?
Overspill into compulsion
Negative emotion
Rigid persistence
What is adaptive passion?
Fuel task engagement - motivation, well being, enthusiasm
Providing balanced and purposeful life
What is harmonious passion?
Refers to a motivational force that leads a a person to engage in the activity willingly and produces a sense of desire and personal support about pursuing the activity.
They do it because they choose to do so, don’t feel compelled or controlled.
What is obsessive passion?
Refers to a motivational force that pushes a person towards an activity. They like the sport but feel compelled to engage in it due to an internal force that is controlling to them.
How is passion developed?
1) activity selection (social environment plays major role here)
2) personal valuation of the activity (if the activity contains an element of interest, not fleeting, it is said to be valued and meaningful)
3) internalisation in identity (when activity is highly valued people are likely to internalise it. How it is internalised determines the type of passion)
What is primary distinction?
How an activity has been internalised into ones identity.m
Internalisation of passion leans heavily on how personal and environmental factors permit a full or only partial integration of behaviour.
What is autonomous internalisation? (HARMONIOUS)
Individual chooses to pursue something for the pleasure/challenge/enjoyment of it.
Implies people have freely accepted the activity as important for the, without any contingencies attached to them.
This means a persons identity is defined by the activity and it’s subjective experience is that of personal choice.
What is controlled internalisation? (OBSESSIVE)
Individual feels internal or external pressure to pursue something
Involves internalising the activity into identity because feel pressure to do so or there are contingencies attaches (e.g. Social acceptance)
This means a persons identity is defined by the activity but it’s subjective experience is that of control or pressure.
What are determinants of internalisation?
Social conditions
Personality
What are correlates of passion?
Affective outcomes Well being Persistence Performance Relationship variables
Passion and relationships
Data shows that athletes perceptions of their relationship with their coach are related positively to athletes HP and mainly unrelated to OP.
HP predicted all dimensions of the quality of the relationship
OP positively related to direct commitment and negatively related to meta complimentary.
Passion and affective outcomes
HP positively related to task focus, feelings of flow and positive affect
OP positively related to shame (but not anxiety)
Passion and well being
HP associated with higher levels of psychological well being than OP
OP typically unrelated to positive emotions
Positive emotions allow access to the self by broadening the attention and thought repertoires, subsequently facilitating use of adaptive processes, such as coping with adversity and stress.
Passion and persistence
HP - person in control of the activity so behavioural engagement and persistence is flexible
OP - activity taken control of the person so likely to lead people to engage in activities when they shouldn’t / personal costs incurred (rigid persistence)
Passion and performance
Both OP and HP lead to engagement of deliberate practice and in turn improve sport performance.
What should future research in the area of passion include?
What is the empirical link between passion and athletic identity
What is the association of passion with constructs such as sport, commitment, anxiety, eating disorders, exercise dependance, attachment orientations, moral behaviour.
What type of passion should coaches try and foster in young people?
Based on limited evidence medicating that HP promotes adaptive sport outcomes and that OP is unrelated, Vallerand (2007) suggested that it would be important to foster HP.
Significant others should support young athletes to select activities that interest them and they enjoy doing - to help develop HP.
If young athletes feel the engage in activities because they choose to do so they are more likely to internalise and integrate the activity in their indemnity harmoniously.
