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Keywords

Sports--Iowa--Cedar Falls--Psychological aspects; Sports injuries--Iowa--Cedar Falls--Psychological aspects; College athletes--Iowa--Cedar Falls--Psychology; University of Northern Iowa--Students--Psychology; Pride and vanity;

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine pride and motivational orientation of Division I athletes. The secondary purpose was to examine if these constructs effect the rehabilitation behaviors of injured athletes. Participants were 219 male and female athletes from a Division I institute completed on an athletic demographics questionnaire, 7-item Authentic and Hubristic pride scales, and The Sport Motivation Scale. If athletes became injured (n = 51), certified athletic trainers and senior athletic training students completed a weekly injury report and a rehabilitation behavior questionnaire on these athletes. Preliminary analyses (frequencies, descriptives, reliabilities, and correlations), followed by two separate MANOVAs, a cluster analysis, a MANOVA, an ANOVA, and a Multiple Regression were conducted. Results revealed all scales demonstrated adequate reliabilities, alphas ranging from .77 to .90 for motivational orientation and from .88 to .89 for pride. Inter-rater reliability for certified athletic trainers and senior athletic training students had adequate reliability for all 5 items (α = .91). Hubristic pride was weakly, positively correlated with amotivation (r = .21), and moderately positively correlated with extrinsic motivation (r = .33). Authentic pride was weakly, negatively correlated with amotivation (r = -.27), moderately positively correlated with intrinsic motivation (r = .40), and weakly, positively correlated with extrinsic motivation (r = .20). Both MANOVAs determining differences between injured and non-injured athletes on pride and motivation were not significant (p’s > .13). Four cluster groups emerged based on motivational profile, and did significantly differ on pride (p =

Year of Submission

2016

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services

Department

Division of Athletic Training

First Advisor

Windee M. Weiss, Chair

Date Original

7-2016

Object Description

1 PDF file (vi, 125 pages)

Language

en

File Format

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