The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the combined and separate effects of goal-setting and of an effort attribution orientation on intrinsic motivation and motor performance. The second purpose was to determine if these motivational treatments differentially affected subjects who had received failure-oriented, success-oriented, or no feedback of performance. The final purpose was to determine if the motivational treatments were equally affective for males and females at each level of feedback. Sixth grade male (N = 84) and female (N = 75) subjects were selected from all the sixth grade students attending the Howard Middle School, Monticello, Florida. They were stratified by sex and randomly placed in one of 24 groups: 2 levels of sex x 3 levels of feedback (failure-oriented, success-oriented, and none) x 4 levels of motivation (goal-setting and an effort attribution orientation, goal-setting, an effort attribution orientation, or control). All subjects were tested on a stabilometer task to determine learning and persistence) as a function of each condition. A 2 x 3 x 4 (sex x feedback x motivation) ANOVA revealed that females persisted significantly longer at the task than did males. With respect to motor performance, a 3 x 2 x 4 x 10 (feedback x sex x motivation x trials) ANOVA indicated that learning occurred across trials. A trend (p = .09) was also obtained for the motivation main effect. Treatment effectiveness occurred in the following descending order: effort attribution orientation, goal-setting, goal-setting and effort attribution orientation, and control. / Locus of causality, data was analyzed with a 3 x 2 x 4 x 2 (feedback x sex x motivation x test) ANOVA. A trend (p = .09) was obtained for the test x motivation interaction. Subjects in the three motivation groups perceived their causal ascriptions to be more internal on the posttest than on the pretest. The control group perceived its causal attributions to be more external on the posttest than on the pretest. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05, Section: A, page: 1650. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75813 |
| Contributors | RAWLINS, ROBERT LEE, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 170 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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