Rugby feminino em Portugal: que motivações e barreiras para a prática da modalidade?

• Autor(a) principal: Renata Monteiro Morais Pinto Veiga
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/121500
• topic: Outras ciências sociais; Other social sciences

Nowadays, it is a consensus that sports practice has immense advantages both at physical and psychological level. However, over time, athletes face some barriers to sports practice. In this sense, in the present study was the meeting of this reality - the reduced, albeit growing, female adherence to sport, and in particular to Rugby to understand the motivations of these for practice. The main objective of this study was to verify the motives and motivational adjustments that contribute to the initiation and maintenance of rugby practice by female athletes in Portugal based on the self-Determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2017). The sample consisted of 120 athletes from 15 national teams playing Rugby, aged between 12 and 48 years of age (̅= 19.32 ± 6.42), using an individual questionnaire with four groups of questions: (1) questions Sociodemographic, (2) Open questions about the opinions about Rugby (3) the instrument Behavioral Regulation in Sport Questionnaire in its Portuguese adaptation (Monteiro et al., 2018), which evaluates the motivational adjustments, and (4) the Basic Need Satisfaction in Exercise Scale in its Portuguese adaptation (Monteiro et al., 2016), which collects data on the satisfaction of basic psychological needs. We also conducted discussion groups focused on athletes from some of the teams. The data analysis revealed that the athletes had high levels of satisfaction of the NPB and higher levels of autonomous motivation compared to the controlled motivation. Regarding the reasons for the practice, it was found that the athletes started mainly by invitations from third parties to experience the modality, followed by the family influence and finally the disclosure. As for their maintenance, the athletes responded that they practiced for pleasure, following the advantages at the level of interpersonal relationships. The characteristics of the modality, including the contact, were also pointed out as a positive aspect cited above. Thus, in general, we found that Rugby athletes in Portugal, although they face some barriers to the beginning and maintenance in practice (often related to the level of organization), the athletes present high values of autonomous motivation and reveal that interpersonal relationships are an important reason for both the beginning and the maintenance in practice.