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Both orientations reflect how individuals perceive their
competences, define their success and failure, how they are
engaged and participate in activities, and how they react when
attaining goals (Brunel, 1999). Based on this, we wanted to find
out if there were differences in perception of success between
individual and team sports athletes. We found a significant
difference in favour of team sports athletes. A possible
explanation of higher perceptions of success in team sports is
that players can rely also on their teammates, so the result does
not depend solely on them but on a whole team. Furthermore,
they may perceive success more intensively because of overall
team achievements and not only because of their performance in
a match.
Top athletes should have both, ego orientation and task
orientation. The individuals oriented on tasks do particularly
individual sports (Gregor, 2013). We can speculate that in every
team sport there is also a person who is sometimes more an
individual player than team player. Such individual players may
prefer experiencing success particularly for their own
satisfaction to experiencing success and fame of the whole team.
On the other hand, in team players perception of success is more
noticeable and intensive also on the basis of acknowledgement
by significant others. It is obvious that emotions associated with
success (joy, happiness, delight) can be observed in all members
of the team. Emotions are contagious, which may be another
explanation of our finding. Emotions spread from one player to
another within the team and perception of success becomes
stronger and more intense. Therefore, perception of success can
be really stronger in team sports athletes than in individual sports
athletes.
5 Conclusion
In the presented study we explored the relationships between
enjoyment of physical activity and age and perception of
success. While no significant relationship was identified between
enjoyment of physical activity and perception of success, a weak
but significant relationship was revealed between age and
enjoyment of physical activity indicating a higher level of
enjoyment in younger students. Additionally, individual sports
athletes and team sports athletes were compared in enjoyment of
physical activity and perception of success. The results of the
study indicate that team sports athletes scored higher in
perception of success than individual sports athletes. We can
assume that team sports athletes are more task-oriented and
subsequently they share the common goals. This can possibly
enhance the feelings of pride, satisfaction and naturally it
increases the perception of success. The findings suggest that it
would be useful for the future research to consider at least a
larger sample size, including the extended age range for better
clarification and more precise generalizability of the results.
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