Resumen de An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Self-efficacy, Motivation, and Team Performance of High-level Basketball Players

Zhuo Yang

• Motivation is an essential part of team performance as it urges teams to make a collaborative effort and achieve a common objective or accomplish a specific task effectively and most efficiently. The current study aims to investigate self-efficacy for self-regulated learning and self-efficacy for motivation and team performance especially in the case of a basketball game. The study examines the mediating role of motivation among the nexus of self-efficacy for self-regulated learning, self-efficacy for achievement, and team performance. The data was gathered through questionnaires from different basketball team players, while smart-PLS was executed for data analysis. The results revealed that self-efficacy for self-regulated learning and self-efficacy for achievement had a positive association with motivation and team performance. The findings also exposed that motivation positively mediated among the nexus of self-efficacy for self-regulated learning, self-efficacy for achievement, and team performance. These findings are useful for the head of team management along with the sports policymakers who should benefit from its findings to enhance the self-efficacy, motivation, and team performance of basketball players.