Enhancing Social Goal Involvement through Cooperative Instructions

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The current study examined the influence of giving competitive, cooperative, and individualistic goals on goal involvement. After being given cooperative, competitive, or individualistic goals, college students (N = 198; 65 male, 133 female) played a social dilemma task and completed questions assessing task, ego, and cooperative goal involvement. Experimental grouping significantly predicted goal involvement, with cooperative group participants defining success by working with partners more often and outperforming others less often than competitive group participants did. As social ways of defining success generally predict beneficial motivation-related outcomes (e.g., Hodge, Allen, & Smellie, 200814. Hodge , K. , Allen , J. B. and Smellie , L. 2008 . Motivation in Masters sport: Achievement and social goals . Psychology of Sport and Exercise , 9 : 157 - 176 . [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®]View all references; Stuntz & Weiss, 200932. Stuntz , C. P. and Weiss , M. R. 2009 . Achievement goal orientations and motivational outcomes in youth sport: The role of social orientations . Psychology of Sport and Exercise , 10 : 255 - 262 . [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®]View all references), promoting cooperative goals appears beneficial.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2011.638360