There has been a plethora of studies in the past decade investigating task and ego
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The purpose of this paper is to propose a motivational sequence that integrates much of the
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Our goal in this chapter is to comprehensively review the literature on motivation and sport
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Drawing from contemporary goal perspective theories of achievement motivation, this
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Two studies of how elementary school and middle school-aged children's general self-
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