Further clarifying the competition–performance relation: reply to D. W. Johnson et al. (2012)

Murayama, K. and Elliot, A. J. (2012) Further clarifying the competition–performance relation: reply to D. W. Johnson et al. (2012). Psychological Bulletin, 138 (6). pp. 1079-1084. ISSN 0033-2909 doi: 10.1037/a0029606

Abstract/Summary

In their commentary, D. W. Johnson, Johnson, and Roseth (2012) provided some laudatory statements about our article, but they also expressed a number of concerns. The concerns focus on the following issues: types and definitions of competition, our choice of control group, the nature of performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals, the comprehensiveness of the opposing processes model, and performance-approach goals and constructive competition. We respond to each of these issues in turn and conclude with a statement regarding working to build an integrative model of the competition–performance relation (and beyond).