Abstract
This study examined whether achievement goal priming effects would be observed within an overtly competitive setting. Male soccer players (N = 66) volunteered to participate in a soccer penalty-kick taking competition during which they took 20 penalty-kicks on 2 occasions. Following a pretest, participants were allocated to 1 of 5 priming conditions. Immediately prior to the posttest, participants in the priming conditions were asked to complete what was presented as an ostensibly unrelated task that took the form of either a computer task (subliminal priming) or wordsearch task (supraliminal priming). Results revealed that priming had no significant influence on performance.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 245-250 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Human Kinetics |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2014 |
Keywords
- Achievement goals
- Penalty-kicks
- Priming