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I
once played soccer with a kid called
Mark. Mark was a very successful youth
soccer player who was always one of
the better players in any team he
played for. Indeed, Mark represented
the National schoolboy U.15 team.
About one year later, however, Mark
dropped out of soccer. He said that
soccer had stopped being fun as he
wasn't the best player anymore. It was
clear that Mark could only feel
successful if he was number one and
did not want to play if he could not
achieve this goal.
This
anecdote illustrates how important it
is for coaches and/or parents to
understand the ways in which their
players perceive success in soccer,
and the significant effects these
perceptions may have on their
motivation to play the game.
Specifically, how hard they try in
practice and during games, whether
they persist when the going gets
tough, and whether they practice
skills that will help them get better
even if they are not presently very
good at them.
Research
has found that for children under the
age of 10 high ability is generally
implied by learning, or by success at
tasks they are uncertain of being able
to complete. They do not judge ability
with reference to performance norms or
social comparisons. They can be
induced to adopt anothers performance
as a standard, but normally they make
self-referenced rather than social
norm referenced judgments of ability.
For young children, when more effort
is needed for success, this implies
more learning which means more ability
in their world. In a real sense,
effort is ability for children under
the age of 11!! Because young children
cannot differentiate effort from
ability, they do not have the
cognitive ability to understand
winning and losing.
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