Abstract
Relationships among motivational climate, achievement goals, intrinsic motivation, self-confidence, anxiety, and mood in young sport players. This paper presents the results of a research aimed to discover the relationship between the motivational climate generated during the training sessions and the goal orientation, intrinsic motivation, self-confidence, anxiety level, mood states in young sport players before and after the competition. The sample consisted of 96 sport players (48 females and 48 males) belonging to fourteen athletics clubs. The age range was 14 to 16. Results show that the mastery climate is positively associated to goal orientation, to intrinsic motivation during the training sessions, to self-confidence and to the pre-competition mood state. Whereas the task climate was positively associated to ego-orientation and to somatic and cognitive anxiety. Task climate was negatively associated to intrinsic motivation, to self-confidence and to pre and post competition mood state.
