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ARTICLE REVIEW #2

Article Review #2

Alice Caruthers

Department of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology

PSY 2446 – Sport Psychology [2022 Fall 2]

Dr. Todd Caze II

November 27, 2022

Article Review #2

Introduction

The article Motivational Processes Influencing Mental Health Among Winter Sports Athletes in China by Xinran Wu and Zainal Abidin (2021) explains the Hierarchical Model of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation (HMIEM) and how motivational processes and mental characteristics are related in athletes who compete in winter sports. It reveals an activity-based environment as a positive contributor to mental needs, which gives a positive way to control motivation. It also focuses on the esteem-based setting as a negative contributor to a negative route to motivation. The article's hypotheses focus on the relationship between maintaining the mental aspects of winter sports athletes through motivational processes.

Methods

Participant observation is a qualitative research technique used in this article. Male and female college athletes who competed in winter sports were the study's participants. They represented nine winter sports, including snowboarding, cross-country skiing, ice hockey, speed skating, and curling, at three-sport institutions (Wu et al., 2021). The ethics committee authorized the procedures, and participants gave their informed consent. The motivational climate scale, which measures motivation, and the absolute need satisfaction in sport scale, which measures fundamental mental needs, are two of the techniques employed in the study (Wu et al., 2021). The data were analyzed using the SPSS model 26.0 and Amos 26.0 to outline the correlation coefficients and descriptive statistics.

Results

The findings indicate that there were intricate connections between different motivating elements and players' mental health in winter sports. For instance, 31% of the participants had various forms of mental distress, whereas the typical athlete experienced signs of anxiety and stress. Motivational processes (Wu et al., 2021) significantly influence the mental state of athletes. The findings showed a favorable correlation between collegiate athletes' perceptions of an activity-based environment and the satisfying of their basic requirements for autonomy and competence. On the other hand, vital need satisfaction had a poor association with an esteem-based environment.

Discussion

The results of this study suggested that the motivational process in HMIEM might include characteristics of stress, anxiety, and depression. It is essential to draw the conclusion that motivating strategies used by athletes are key for managing mental health. The essay reveals the link between motivation and athletes' mental health difficulties (Wu et al., 2021). Its conclusions are useful to everyday life since they provide light on the motivating patterns of athletes that are related to the satisfying of their most fundamental demands. As a result, this research provides strong evidence in favor of incorporating psychological health components to the results of the HMIEM process by demonstrating a link between various motivating factors.

Reference

Wu, X., Zainal Abidin, N. E., & Aga Mohd Jaladin, R. (2021). Motivational processes influencing mental health among winter sports athletes in China. Frontiers in psychology, 3727.