Motivation for the practice of the street race: difference between high performance amateur athletes and amateur athletes

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva, Pâmela Norraila
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Solera, Bruna, Almeida, Taís Luiz de, Anversa, Ana Luiza Barbosa, Manoel, Francisco de Assis
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Educação Física e Esporte
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/cadernoedfisica/article/view/21288
• topic: Incentivo; Treino Aeróbico; Praticantes; Incentive; Endurance Training; Athletes

Objective: This study investigated the motivation for the practice of street racing in high performance amateurs athletes and amateurs of the city of Maringá-PR. Methods: Thirty-four street-racing athletes participated (18 high performance and 16 amateurs). Sociodemographic questionnaires were used to characterize the athletes and trajectory in the sport, as well as the motivation scale for the sports (SMS-II). Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 20.0 software (SPSS Inc., USA). Results: The sociodemographic responses of the athletes were expressed in descriptive statistics; data for the motivation scale are presented as means ± standard deviations (SD), to verify the normality of the data the Shapiro Wilk test was used, the comparison of the motivation for athletes’ sports, with a significance level of p<0.05. The results indicated that the mean age of the athetes is 34.3±8.1 years, and 52.9% are male and 47.1% are female, and the practice time varies from 3 months to 22 years. Regarding the motivation for the sport, the intrinsic motivation was predominant for both the high performance athlete group (6.0±1.1) and for amateur athletes (5,8±1,6). Conclusion: There is no difference between motivation for the practice of street racing between high performance amateurs athletes and amateurs of the city of Maringá, moreover, for both athletes the motivations for the sport are predominantly intrinsic.