Jaume Cruz

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined relationships among perceptions of motivational climate, perceived ability, satisfaction and fair play attitudes in young soccer players and found that perceptions of a task-involving climate were positively associated with satisfaction in practices and self-referenced perceived ability and were inversely related to rough play attitudes and normative perceived ability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a grounded theory approach to add a prospective view of retirement to the existing research in career transition based on retrospective data and found that active elite athletes gradually build an image of retirement from competitive sports during his/her sporting carrer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the importance of observing the behaviour of coaches at children and adolescents sporting events as an initial step prior to any psychological guidance or other form of intervention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of coaches' communication style and coach-created motivational climate in young soccer players' enjoyment and commitment was studied, and it was found that the perceived motivational climate correlated highly with the perception of coaching's communication style.

TL;DR: The authors' findings provided a clear pattern of the influence of motivation in sport enjoyment and commitment, outlining the positive contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to enjoyment andcommitment.