Date of Graduation
2004
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MS
Committee Chair
Edward Etzel
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of three types of goal setting: performance goals, process goals and no goals, on a racquetball skill task, competitive state anxiety, and goal commitment. Forty college undergraduate students enrolled in racquetball classes were randomly assigned to one of three goal setting groups. Performance and anxiety were evaluated over two competitions conducted over a five week period. The instruments used were the Modified CSAI-2 (Jones & Swain, 1992) for anxiety, the Goal Commitment Questionnaire (Filby et al., 1999) for commitment and a goal manipulation check to measure goal setting changes. Participants were provided with goal setting instruction appropriate to their group, engaged in a competition, reevaluated the goals they had previously set, and engaged in another competition. There were no significant findings. Several limitations including length of study and the nature of the sample utilized were discussed. Future research directions for examining different types of goal setting on performance and anxiety were offered.
Recommended Citation
Clark, Trendell, "The effects of performance and process goals on anxiety and performance of a racquetball task." (2004). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD). 10845.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/10845