Type of Publication: | Journal article |
Publication status: | Published |
Author: | Schüler, Julia; Brunner, Sibylle; Steiner, Marianne |
Year of publication: | 2009 |
Published in: | Athletic Insight ; 1 (2009), 2. - pp. 1-20. - ISSN 1947-6299 |
Summary: |
Incentives play an important role in human motivation (see Beckmann & Heckhausen, 2008). In the present research we used Rheinberg’s (2008) distinction of activity-related incentives (e.g., having fun) and purpose-related incentives (e.g., improved fitness) and investigated the influence of these two types of incentives on commitment and well-being in the domain of sport. Assuming that activity-related incentives have stronger rewarding effects on human behaviour than purpose-related incentives, we hypothesized activity-related incentives to be stronger predictors of sportcommitment and well-being than purpose-related incentives. Study 1 (N = 129) confirmed this hypothesis using a correlational design. In Study 2 (N = 67) we experimentally induced activity- and purpose-related incentives. We found stronger effects of activity-related incentives on sport-commitment and well-being compared to purpose-related incentives.
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Subject (DDC): | 796 Sport |
Keywords: | Incentives, commitment, well-being, exercising |
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SCHÜLER, Julia, Sibylle BRUNNER, Marianne STEINER, 2009. Different Effects of Activity- and Purpose-Related Incentives on Commitment and Well-Being in the Domain of Sports. In: Athletic Insight. 1(2), pp. 1-20. ISSN 1947-6299
@article{Schuler2009Diffe-37012, title={Different Effects of Activity- and Purpose-Related Incentives on Commitment and Well-Being in the Domain of Sports}, year={2009}, number={2}, volume={1}, issn={1947-6299}, journal={Athletic Insight}, pages={1--20}, author={Schüler, Julia and Brunner, Sibylle and Steiner, Marianne} }