THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN IMAGERY TYPES AND GOAL ORIENTATIONS IN THROWERS

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between imagery types and goal orientations in throwers. 62 athletes (33 female and 29 male) who competed in track and field national team ( age= 18.70 years; SD= 2.88, sportage= 6.26 years; SD= 3.16) participated in this study. All participants completed Sport Imagery Questionnaire- SIQ and Task and Ego Orientation in Sport- TEOSQ. Relationships between imagery types and goal orientations in throwerswere analyzed with Pearson Moments Products Correlation Coefficients (p  .05).The results revealed that there were significant relationships between ego orientation and motivational- specific, motivational general-arousal, motivational general- mastery for athletes. (r= .304, .251, .275; p .05). Also there were significant relationships between task orientation and motivational general-arousal, motivational general- mastery for athletes (r= .320, .348; p .05).

Keywords

• cognitive imagery
• motivational- specific imagery
• motivational general-arousal imagery
• motivational general- mastery imagery
• ego orientation
• task orientation