Mastering Motivation in Sports

1. The conventional wisdom around motivation has gaps.
2. Self-determination theory emphasizes the role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness in intrinsic motivation.
3. Motivation is multidimensional and changes based on the task, situation, and environment.
4. Coaches can affect motivation through developing controlling or autonomy-supportive environments.
5. Autonomy-supportive behaviors lead to more effort and persistence, better performance, and concentration.
6. Providing clients with controlled choice over a specific practice variable improves motor learning and skill acquisition.
7. Clients will request feedback less often the more they perform a task.
8. Clients will request feedback after successful trials more often than after poor trials.
9. Providing clients with controlled choice over progressions and difficulty improves motor learning and skill acquisition.
10. Individualized practice, feedback, demonstrations, and progressions lead to higher motivation and active involvement.

• The articles discuss various aspects of motivation in sports and physical education.
• Self-determination theory is a common theme throughout the articles.
• Autonomy-supportive feedback and self-controlled practice are shown to enhance motivation and motor learning.
• Positive feedback is found to have a motivating role.
• Different cortical areas are activated by positive and negative outcomes.
• An autonomy-supportive coaching style is effective in promoting motivation.
• The coach-athlete relationship is explored as a motivational model.
• Older adults respond differently to feedback than younger adults.
• The effectiveness of intervention programs designed to support autonomy is analyzed.
• The book "Drive" by Daniel Pink is referenced as a source on motivation.

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