Comparison of motivation to practice sports in young athletes based on sex, practice time and competition group

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Giovana Correia da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Refundini, Luciana Boligon, Oliveira, Daniel Vicentini de, Marroni, Paula Caroline Teixeira, Nascimento Júnior, José Roberto Andrade do, Anversa, Ana Luiza Barbosa
• 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/25977

OBJECTIVE: To compare the motivation for the sports practice of young athletes in terms of sex, practice time and competition group.METHODS: Cross-sectional study, carried out with 30 students / athletes, 19 of whom were male and 11 females, from the categories of track and field events, between 9 and 17 years old. The Sport Motivation Scale II (SMS II) was used. For data analysis, the Shapiro-Wilk, Kruskal-Wallis and U Mann-Whitney tests were used (p<0.05). RESULTS: The results showed that athletes are more motivated by intrinsic factors (Md=7.00). In relation to sex, female athletes had a significant difference in external regulation compared to male athletes (p=0.04) and athletes in field events showed more extrinsically motivated than athletes in track events (p=0.03).CONCLUSION: It was concluded that gender and type of race are intervening factors in the extrinsic motivation and demotivation of track and field athletes.