Self-report or coach-rating? The predictive validity of different approaches to assess athletes' achievement motivation in team and individual sports.

Zuber, Claudia; Charbonnet, Bryan (2023). Self-report or coach-rating? The predictive validity of different approaches to assess athletes' achievement motivation in team and individual sports. Journal of sports sciences, 41(17), pp. 1645-1653. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/02640414.2023.2289271

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The critical role of psychological features in talent identification research is well established. What remains open is how they should be captured, as self-report as well as coach-rating approaches can be subject to bias when used for talent selection purposes (e.g., social desirability and halo effect). The purpose of this study was to examine which of three different approaches (self-report, coach-rating, and a combination of both) to assess constructs related to achievement motivation offers the highest validity for predicting performance levels of youth athletes in individual and team sports over a two-year period using binary logistic regression models and the DeLong test. Descriptively, the combination model displayed the highest predictive validity, followed by coach-ratings and self-reports. However, only the comparison of the combination and self-report models displayed meaningful differences. The findings do not allow a definitive conclusion, but coach-ratings might be the least biased and most cost and time effective approach.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW)
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW) > Sport Psychology and Research Methods

UniBE Contributor:

Zuber, Claudia, Charbonnet, Bryan

Subjects:

700 Arts > 790 Sports, games & entertainment

ISSN:

1466-447X

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

04 Dec 2023 11:06

Last Modified:

19 Mar 2024 06:49

Publisher DOI:

10.1080/02640414.2023.2289271

PubMed ID:

38031810

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Psychology comparison talent development talent identification

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/189675

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/189675

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