Table 6.

Sample composition and subscale scores for a range of papers using the POSQ.

References	Sample	Task orientation	Ego orientation
Ommundsen et al., 1998	148 Norwegian university PE/sport students	4.69 (0.47)	2.87 (0.87)
Pensgaard and Roberts, 2000	69 Norwegian Olympic athletes	M: 4.54 (0.46); F: 4.46 (0.46)	M: 3.95 (0.71); F: 3.90 (0.56)
Lemyre et al., 2002*	511 Norwegian male youth soccer players	4.46 (0.52)	3.73 (0.80)
Harwood et al., 2004	573 British elite youth athletes	4.53 (0.49)	3.60 (0.90)
Lemyre et al., 2008	141 Norwegian elite winter sport athletes	4.47 (0.66)	3.86 (0.82)
Rottensteiner et al., 2015	1517 Finnish “persistent” youth athletes	4.17 (0.61)	3.38 (0.88)

^*Youth version; M, male; F, female; values are mean (standard deviation).