Publications by authors named "James Adie"

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  • - The study investigated the relationships between self-based goals, stress appraisals, and performance/emotions among UK parkrunners, highlighting the role of self-determined reasons behind these goals.
  • - Using a sample of 324 parkrunners, data on goals, stress perceptions, performance, and emotions were collected across three time points, revealing that self-determined reasons influenced both challenge appraisals and emotions like pride and shame.
  • - Results indicated that the reasons behind an approach goal increased pride and lowered feelings of shame, while the overall intensity of pursuing the goal was not as impactful, underscoring the importance of the motivations behind the goals.
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Grounded in the 2 x 2 achievement goal framework (Elliot & McGregor, 2001), the purpose of this study was to investigate the temporal relationships between achievement goals, competition appraisals and indices of psychological and emotional welfare among elite adolescent soccer players. A subsidiary aim was to ascertain the mediational role of competition appraisals in explaining the potential achievement goal and well-/ill-being relationships. Ninety-one boys (mean age = 13.

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Grounded in the 2x2 achievement goal framework (Elliot & McGregor, 2001), a model was tested examining the hypothesized relationships between approach and avoidance (mastery and performance) goals, challenge and threat appraisals of sport competition, and positive and negative indices of well-being (i.e., self-esteem, positive, and negative affect).

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