amir dana; Mansour khalilzadeh Kouchameshki
Abstract
Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the effect of motivational self-talk on endurance performance, with an emphasis on the role of self-determination.Methods: The participants included 18 physical education students with a history of regular exercise, with a mean age of 21.08±2.5 years, ...
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Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the effect of motivational self-talk on endurance performance, with an emphasis on the role of self-determination.Methods: The participants included 18 physical education students with a history of regular exercise, with a mean age of 21.08±2.5 years, who voluntarily participated in the present study after being informed about the study's objectives and the application of its results. The research design was implemented as a within-group design, and reciprocal alignment was used to control the effect of novelty and the order of presentation of different levels of the independent variable. In three baseline conditions, autonomous motivational self-talk (self-determining), controlled motivational self-talk (coach determining), their endurance performance was measured within the group in the Bruce test based on the time to exhaustion and the perception of pressure with the Borg test.Results: The results of repeated measures analysis of variance showed that self-talk in the self-determining condition led to a decrease in the perception of pressure and improved endurance performance compared to the determining coach condition. The results of the Bonferroni post hoc test showed that self-talk in the coach-determining and self-determining conditions led to improved endurance performance compared to the conditions without self-talk.Conclusion: It seems that the autonomous motivational climate in conditions where the athlete played the main role in selecting and using the type of self-talk phrases provided the basis for improving endurance performance and reducing the perception of pressure in athletes by satisfying the psychological needs of autonomy, relevance, and competence.
