Citation

Tamminen KA, Gaudreau P, McEwen CE, Crocker PR. J. Sport Exerc. Psychol. 2016; 38(6): 541-555.

Affiliation

Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Human Kinetics Publishers)

DOI

10.1123/jsep.2015-0189

PMID

27383379

Abstract

Efforts to regulate emotions can influence others, and interpersonal emotion regulation within teams may affect athletes' own affective and motivational outcomes. We examined adolescent athletes' (N = 451, N teams = 38) self- and interpersonal emotion regulation, as well as associations with peer climate, sport enjoyment, and sport commitment within a multilevel model of emotion regulation in teams.

RESULTS of multilevel Bayesian structural equation modeling showed that athletes' self-worsening emotion regulation strategies were negatively associated with enjoyment, while other-improving emotion regulation strategies were positively associated enjoyment and commitment. The team-level interpersonal emotion regulation climate and peer motivational climates were also associated with enjoyment and commitment. Team-level factors moderated some of the relationships between athletes' emotion regulation with enjoyment and commitment. These findings extend previous research by examining interpersonal emotion regulation within teams using a multilevel approach, and they demonstrate the importance of person- and team-level factors for athletes' enjoyment and commitment.

Language: en