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dc.contributor.authorWeber, Silvana
dc.contributor.authorOlsen, Marte
dc.contributor.authorMartiny, Sarah E.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-22T12:25:36Z
dc.date.available2023-03-22T12:25:36Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-08
dc.description.abstractThe social networking site Instagram provides users with an abundance of photos and information in many domains including sports. The posts are often intended to inspire and motivate users. We argue that the display of success and failure of professional athletes may influence elite athletes’ own sports ambitions. Research has shown that exposure to positive ingroup stereotypes and exposure to negative outgroup stereotypes can increase performance (i.e., the stereotype boost effect and the stereotype lift effect, respectively). Based on this research, we conducted three experiments in two different cultural contexts. In all three experiments, we examined whether Instagram posts that showed either ingroup members’ success or outgroup members’ failure influenced athletic motivation, self-efficacy, and sports-related behavioral intentions of female elite athletes. Experiment 1 (n = 117) was conducted in Germany, whereas Experiments 2 (n = 137) and 3 (n = 143) were conducted in Norway. Results showed that in Germany, participants’ athletic motivation and self-efficacy was highest when they were exposed to failing outgroup members (Exp. 1); however, this was not the case in Norway (Exp. 2). In contrast, only Norwegian participants who were exposed to successful ingroup members reported a significant increase in their athletic motivation, but there were no effects regarding self-efficacy and sports-related behavioral intentions (Exp. 3). Boundary conditions for Instagram’s role in motivating users and reasons for the differences between the two cultural contexts are discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWeber, Olsen, Martiny. Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?. Psychology of Sport And Exercise. 2022;58en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2022058
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.102080
dc.identifier.issn1469-0292
dc.identifier.issn1878-5476
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/28818
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalPsychology of Sport And Exercise
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleEffects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?en_US
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dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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