Physical educators and researchers emphasize the importance of intrinsic motivation that activity itself is a goal regardless reward. Especially, physical activity (eg, play or sports) in the physical education class can more activate the intrinsic in...
Physical educators and researchers emphasize the importance of intrinsic motivation that activity itself is a goal regardless reward. Especially, physical activity (eg, play or sports) in the physical education class can more activate the intrinsic interesting than order subjects. And researches for intrinsic motivation have been focused in that intrinsic motivation can be strengthened intrinsically.
The purpose of this study was to find the effect of competition type and success or failure on the motor performance and intrinsic motivation. Subjects were 90 children (mean age 9.84 year) engaged in elementary school, and the task was a bead moving.
Experimental design was a 3 (conpetition type) × 2 (performance feedback), and subjects were allocated at 6 experimental conditions using systemical randoming.
Independent variables of this study were competition type (inter-person competition, competition to criterion, non-competition) and performance feedback (success and failure), Dependent variables were motor performance and intrinsic motivation.
Results are as follows.
Motor performance measures and interesting of that activity were higher in the inter-person competition condition than competition to criterion and non-competition condition, and behavioral intend was also higher in the inter-person competition condition then other conditions.
Motor performance measures, and interesting and behavioral intend to that activity were higher in the group received success feedback than the group received failure feedback.
There were no significant difference between group received success feedback in the competition condition and group received failure feedback in the non-competition condition. But reselts indicated that interesting score and behavioral intend score to that activity were higher in the competition condition than in the non-competition condition.