According to Locke and Latham (1990), goal-setting is a powerful motivationa! tool which captivates the individual's attention and sense of effort in pooling all available resources to accomplish a task with accrued determination. Goal-setting has been used successfully in sports and physical activities (Kyllo & Landers, 1995). Positive results have also been realized with low achievers in academic tasks (Bandura & Schunk, 1981). / The purpose of this investigation was to test the effects of goal-setting on basketball free throwing with normally achieving (NA) boys and girls, and with children having learning disabilities (LD), ages 9-13 years. This study also tested the relationship between Perceived Physical Self-Competence (Harter, 1978b) and performance. / Results indicated that the children with LD in the goal-setting group outperformed the control group. However, goal-setting failed to differentiate the performances of NA children. No correlation was established between Perceived Physical Self-competence and the performance of these children. Methodological key points are discussed and suggestions are given for future research with goal-setting and children. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.27969 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Savoie, Nicole A. |
| Contributors | Reid, Greg (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Physical Education.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001618625, proquestno: MQ37235, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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