Achievement incentives determine the effects of achievement-motive incongruence on flow experience

作者：Schueler Julia

来源：Motivation and Emotion, 2010, 34(1): 2-14.

DOI：10.1007/s11031-009-9150-4

• Achievement motive
• Motive incongruence
• Incentives
• Flow experience

Previous research has shown that incongruence between implicit and explicit achievement motives impairs flow experience. We examined this relationship in a more differentiated manner by arguing that achievement-motive incongruence only exerts negative effects when individuals act in situations in which achievement incentives are present and arouse conflict between the two motives. In non-achievement situations, no negative effects of achievement-motive incongruence on flow experience are expected. Study 1 and Study 2 showed that participants with incongruent implicit and explicit achievement motives reported less flow in achievement- as compared to non-achievement-oriented sport situations. In Study 3, we experimentally manipulated achievement and non-achievement situations. Again, motive incongruence impaired the experience of flow in achievement but not in non-achievement situations.

• 出版日期2010-3