Type of Publication: | Journal article |
Publication status: | Published |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-otgp2fxc0sss7 |
Author: | Schüler, Julia; Hofstetter, Jonas; Wolff, Wanja |
Year of publication: | 2019 |
Published in: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience ; 13 (2019). - 235. - eISSN 1662-5153 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00235 |
Summary: |
Objective: This study utilized different theoretical perspectives to better understand motor performance. We refered to concepts of achievement motive-goal incongruence and assessed cortical correlates of self-control. We assumed that more self-control is required when people act in conformance with an incongruent goal which, in turn, results in impaired performance. We considered the activation of a brain area associated with self-control (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, dLPFC) as a consequence of motive-goal incongruence. Furthermore, we analyzed whether trait self-control buffers the negative effects of achievement motive—goal incongruence.
Method: Twenty-eight participants (17 women, mean age: 24 years), whose implicit achievement motives were assessed at the beginning of the study, performed a handgrip task in an achievement goal condition and in three incongruent conditions, while their dLPFC oxygenation was monitored continuously (using functional near-infrared spectroscopy, fNIRS). Results: None of the two-way interactions (motive goal condition) reached significance. A significant three-way interaction (motive trait self-control goal condition) showed that trait self-control buffered the detrimental effects of incongruence on motor performance. The nature of the three-way interaction predicting dLPFC oxygenation was unexpected. Conclusions: Although our results have to be treated with caution due to a small sample size, we see them as an encouraging starting point for further research on the interplay between motive-goal incongruence and trait and cortical correlates of state self-control that we assume to be important to understand performance in strenuous tasks. |
Subject (DDC): | 796 Sport |
Keywords: | achievement motive, motive-goal incongruence, self-control, motor performance, fNIRS |
Link to License: | In Copyright |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
Refereed: | Yes |
SCHÜLER, Julia, Jonas HOFSTETTER, Wanja WOLFF, 2019. The interplay of achievement motive-goal incongruence and state and trait self-control : a pilot study considering cortical correlates of self-control. In: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 13, 235. eISSN 1662-5153. Available under: doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00235
@article{Schuler2019inter-47129, title={The interplay of achievement motive-goal incongruence and state and trait self-control : a pilot study considering cortical correlates of self-control}, year={2019}, doi={10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00235}, volume={13}, journal={Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience}, author={Schüler, Julia and Hofstetter, Jonas and Wolff, Wanja}, note={Article Number: 235} }
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