Regulação motivacional e satisfação de necessidades psicológicas básicas em praticantes de Crossfit

• Autor(a) principal: Pedro André Pinto da Silva Araújo Ferraz
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/116742
• topic: Outras ciências sociais; Other social sciences

Crossfit has been revealing itself as a growing modality, with its number of participants increasing throughout the years. Crossfit provides a methodology based on constantly variated and functional movements executed at high intensity. Although this growth is very visible, literature still can't provide us a lot of studies regarding motivational regulation and satisfaction of basic psychological needs in Crossfit. That was the purpose of this study. Motivational regulation and basic psychological needs satisfaction were analysed in Crossfit enthusiasts. Correlation between Motivational Regulation and basic psychological needs was also analysed. 85 Participants (Mage=32,85±7,06) were submitted to a questionnaire to assess their motivational regulation (BREQ-2) and to evaluate their basic psychological needs satisfaction (NPBES). Three items of open answer were also included, to identify the motives to start the practice of Crossfit, the maintenance of the practice and what differentiates Crossfit from other forms of physical exercise. Results revealed a high satisfaction of all basic psychological needs, with relatedness showing slightly higher values of satisfaction. Results also revealed a more autonomous regulation (higher values of identified regulation and intrinsic motivation). Basic psychological needs satisfaction is associated to more autonomous and self-determined regulations. Correlations between basic psychological needs and motivational regulation showed that all basic psychological needs were positively correlated with autonomous motivation, but competence perception appeared to be the basic psychological need that had higher correlation values and the only one showing statistically significative differences. Relatedness was the basic psychological need that presented higher negative correlation with controlled motivation. This study also revealed that people choose Crossfit thanks to its variety, although, feeling competence was also mentioned to be a factor to choose Crossfit. What was mentioned to be the factor responsible for the maintenance, results show that competence and joy when practicing Crossfit. What revealed being the factor to differentiate Crossfit from the rest was once again variety.