Year: 2012
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study aimed to examine who participates in extreme obstacle courses (EOCs) and why.Drawing from the Big Five theory of personality, and the self-determination theory of motivation, this study examined the interaction of individual difference variables (IDVs) and motivation in a sample of 79 people interested in running extreme obstacle courses.Specifically, demographics, extraversion, openness to experience, general self-efficacy, and physical selfefficacy were examined regarding how they relate to the number of EOCs participants run, and whether they run for intrinsically motivated reasons.Findings suggest that most participants were male, European-American and of high SES.The majority reported being intrinsically having participated in EOCs).Extraversion was significantly positively correlated with intrinsic motivation, and significantly negatively correlated with the combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and physical self-efficacy was marginally related to the number of EOCs participants run.No interactions between personality variables and motivations were found to affect number of EOCs ran.Interpretations of these and other findings, as well as study limitations, are discussed.
Author: Stephanie S. Kronenberg
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2444022559