The implicit fear of power motive is associated with practice time in elite karateka and tennis players

摘要: Competitions in sports like tennis or karate are characterized by a direct interaction of opponents with one athlete trying to dominate the other. The importance implicit power motive – need have impact on others has previously been pointed out for elite sport performances these interactive sports. We hypothesized that is associated practice intensity (Study 1) and 2). In two studies we assessed (hope fear components) explicit motives male athletes (N = 62) found associations athletes’ current amount hours career highs hours. Only component was marginally positively maximum 1, tennis) significantly additional time 2, karate). results suggested motivated pra...