Overcoming a Collegiate Tennis Team's Resistance to Goal Setting
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Authors
Brown, Andrew B.
Issue Date
2006
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The purpose of this review of the goal setting literature
and proposed study was to gain a better understanding of
how to set goals effectively with NCAA division III men's
tennis players. In particular, three obstacles to the goal
setting process were identified: the lack of a common
understanding between the players and the coach regarding
the players' biggest weaknesses, the players' unwillingness
to share information about their weaknesses with teammates,
and the limited amount of time the coach has available to
meet with the players to discuss their progress. In the
proposed field study, two hypotheses regarding solutions to
these obstacles were proposed. The first hypothesis stated
that the demonstration of the effects of goal setting and
public posting using physical fitness goals first would be
more beneficial in fostering team commitment to the goal
setting process than tennis performance goals, and the
second hypothesis stated that taking the goal orientation
of the team members into consideration would result in
greater performance increases than setting goals of the
same difficulty level for all players.
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v, 56 p.
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