Peer-Created Motivational Climate

Learning Objectives
On completion of this chapter, the reader should have
1. understanding of the importance of studying perceptions of the peer motivational climate in youth sport;
2. knowledge of how young athletes perceive different facets of the peer motivational climate;
3. capacity to describe the relationship of different dimensions of the peer motivational climate to young athletes’ motivational indices;
4. awareness of future research directions that aim to
enhance our understanding of the antecedents and consequences of the peer motivational climate; and
5. knowledge of appropriate guidelines for building a task-involving peer motivational climate.