Goal Setting Strategies, Locus of Control Beliefs, and Personality Characteristics of NCAA Division IA Swimmers Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Goal Setting Strategies, Locus of Control Beliefs, and Personality Characteristics of NCAA Division IA Swimmers

Creator

  • Author: Stout, Joel T.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Martin, Scott B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Jackson, Allen
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Collins, John
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 1999-12

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The purpose of the present study was to examine goal setting strategies, locus of control beliefs and personality characteristics of swimmers (108 males and 111 females) from top twenty 1999 NCAA Division IA programs. Three questionnaires were completed: (a) Goal Setting in Sport Questionnaire (GSISQ: Weinberg, Burton, Yukelson, & Weigand, 1993), (b) the Internal, Powerful Others, Chance Scale (IPC: Levenson, 1973), and (c) the compliance subscale and six conscientiousness subscales from the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R: Costa & McCrae, 1985). Descriptive statistics from the GSISQ indicated that most of the swimmers set goals to improve overall performance (51%) and set moderately difficult goals (58%). Results associated with the IPC scale revealed that most of the swimmers attributed their sport performance to internal factors. Results pertaining to the NEO-PI-R indicated that most swimmers were highly conscientious, disciplined, purposeful, and determined.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Swimmers -- Psychology.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: College athletes -- Psychology.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Goal (Psychology)
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Locus of control.
  • Keyword: goal setting
  • Keyword: swimming
  • Keyword: swimmers

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Holder: Stout, Joel T.
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • OCLC: 47111895
  • UNT Catalog No.: b2299107
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc2236

Degree

  • Degree Name: Master of Science
  • Degree Level: Master's
  • Degree Discipline: Kinesiology
  • Academic Department: Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

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