Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season

Fabra, Priscila; González-García, Lorena; Castillo, Isabel; Duda, Joan L.; Balaguer, Isabel

doi:10.3390/su15031750

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Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season

by

Priscila Fabra

¹

,

Lorena González-García

^2,*

,

Isabel Castillo

²

,

Joan L. Duda

³ and

Isabel Balaguer

²

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Department of Psychology, Universidad Europea de Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain

²

Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain

³

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 1750; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031750

Submission received: 31 October 2022 / Revised: 23 December 2022 / Accepted: 13 January 2023 / Published: 17 January 2023

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Organizational Psychology)

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Abstract

Grounded in self-determination theory (SDT), the major aim of this study was to examine the social, environmental, and motivational predictors of adolescent football players’ intentions to drop out of their sport over the course of a season. Participants were 552 players (Mage = 11.23, SD = 1.14). A longitudinal model was tested which hypothesized changes in the coach’s interpersonal style (autonomy supportive, controlling) perceived by the players to predict changes in the players’ motivation (autonomous, controlled and amotivation) which subsequently predicted changes in their intentions to drop out at the season’s end. The results of the longitudinal path analysis presented an adequate fit to the data. Consistent with SDT, findings suggest that increases in autonomy-supportive coaching is promotive of increases in players’ autonomous motivation, which negatively predicted dropout intentions. Over time, more perceived controlling coaching behaviors positively predicted higher levels of controlled motivation and amotivation, with positive changes in the latter corresponding to stronger intentions to dropout.

Keywords: intention to drop out; motivation; motivational climate; longitudinal; football

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Fabra, P.; González-García, L.; Castillo, I.; Duda, J.L.; Balaguer, I. Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season. Sustainability 2023, 15, 1750. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031750

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Fabra P, González-García L, Castillo I, Duda JL, Balaguer I. Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season. Sustainability. 2023; 15(3):1750. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031750

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Fabra, Priscila, Lorena González-García, Isabel Castillo, Joan L. Duda, and Isabel Balaguer. 2023. "Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season" Sustainability 15, no. 3: 1750. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031750

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Fabra, P., González-García, L., Castillo, I., Duda, J. L., & Balaguer, I. (2023). Motivational Antecedents of Young Players’ Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season. Sustainability, 15(3), 1750. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031750

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