College of Health, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA.
School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Apr 25;17(9):2980. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17092980.
The purpose of this study was to explore the potential mediating effect of achievement goals on perceived competence and return-to-sport outcomes among college athletes sustaining a sport injury. Altogether, 75 male and female college athletes from the United States who returned to sport after having missed competition for an average of 3 weeks due to injury, completed valid and reliable inventories measuring perceived competence, achievement goals, and return-to-sport outcomes. Results indicated that task-approach goals significantly mediated the relationship between perceived competence and a renewed sport perspective. These data suggest the importance of promoting competence beliefs and a task-oriented focus among athletes returning to sport following athletic injury. From a practical standpoint, clinicians can foster competence perceptions by integrating progressive physical tests assessing functionality and sport-specific skills/abilities. Furthermore, these data suggest that coaches, physical therapists, and significant others may do well to use language that orients injured athletes towards attaining success as opposed to avoiding failure, to emphasize effort, task completion, and correct form, and to avoid comments that compare athletes to others or to their preinjury standards of performance. From a theoretical standpoint, our mediation findings extend previous achievement goal research into the sport injury domain, further highlighting the importance of task-approach goals.
本研究旨在探讨成就目标在受伤后重返运动的大学生运动员感知能力和重返运动结果之间的潜在中介作用。共有 75 名来自美国的男女大学生运动员因伤平均缺赛 3 周后重返运动，他们完成了有效且可靠的问卷，以测量感知能力、成就目标和重返运动的结果。结果表明，任务趋近目标显著中介了感知能力和更新的运动视角之间的关系。这些数据表明，在运动员因运动损伤重返运动时，促进运动员的能力信念和任务导向的重要性。从实际的角度来看，临床医生可以通过整合渐进式体能测试来评估运动员的功能和运动专项技能/能力，从而培养运动员的能力感知。此外，这些数据表明，教练、物理治疗师和重要他人可能会很好地使用语言，引导受伤运动员以取得成功为目标，而不是避免失败，强调努力、任务完成和正确的形式，并避免将运动员与他人或他们受伤前的表现标准进行比较的言论。从理论的角度来看，我们的中介作用发现将先前的成就目标研究扩展到运动损伤领域，进一步强调了任务趋近目标的重要性。
