摘要：Although sport psychology research has revealed differencesin motivational orientation among athletes from various ethnicgroups (Duda, 1985, 1986a; Whitehead, 1986), no work hasaddressed the impact of within-group variation in acculturation onmotivational goal perspectives. Multiple regression analyses wereconducted on data generated from young Mexican-American male(n = 83) and female (n = 80) athletes. Among males, theacculturation dimensions of media use (f3 = .265, P < .001) andethnic social relations (f3 = .188, P < .001) significantly predicted atask goal perspective, explaining 32% of the variance, whereasincreased ego involvement among female athletes wassignificantly predicted by language use (f3 = .336, P < .01) andethnic social relations (f3 = -.259, P < .05), accounting for 29% ofthe variance. 80th statistical and theoretical explanations areoffered for the observed gender differences. These preliminaryresults suggest that acculturation differentially impacts howMexican-American male and female athletes derive theirperceptions of competence within the competitive sport setting.
