HHPS E-Portfolio
Outcome IV
To understand motivational theories that impact health and human performance
This artifact was completed in HHPS 566, Issues in International Sport, and analyzes how media outlets and sport organizations frame mental health in sport, using high-profile cases such as Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open. The report considers differences among athlete driven narratives focused on emotional transparency and well-being and organizational or media perspectives that often focus on performance, tradition, and commercial interests. This artifact relates to the skills related to motivational theories, which are concepts you would use to teach your students about motivation theories that contribute to health and human performance, which are intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, pressure from external rewards, and the role of autonomy and support in athlete well-being. Showing that controlling behaviours and performance-oriented approaches can depress motivation, contributing to stress, anxiety, and burnout, whereas empowering behaviors engender confidence, investment, and sustained performance. By participating in this project, I have gained a deeper understanding of how not only coaching and environment can influence motivation, but also media and cultural expectations, and how all of these elements can directly impact mental health and athletic performance.
This artifact was completed in HHPK 528, Sport Psychology, and examines how motivational climate influences athlete performance, emotions, and long-term development through both personal reflection and research analysis. Employing the PMCSQ-2 instrument, the examination revealed a high degree of mastery (task-focused) climate focusing on effort, growth, and development rather than winning, whereas the research component applied Achievement Goal Theory (AGT) and Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to interpret how coaching contexts influence motivation. In conclusion: mastery climates support autonomous motivation, dampen anxiety and negative emotions and lead to healthier athlete development, whereas ego-oriented climates elevate pressure, controlled motivation, and emotional stress. This artifact supports the competency of knowledge about motivational theories that affect health and human performance by applying conceptual models to the coaching praxis and showing how individual motivational climates have a direct bearing on both athlete behavior, mental well-being and performance. It emphasizes practical tactics, such as effort-based feedback, skill progression tracking, and a supportive group culture, that can be used to create performance-enhancing environments for well being.