Jelena Ilic1, Dragoljub Visnjic2
1Republički zavod za sport, Beograd
2Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja, Beograd, Srbija
SPECIFICS OF MOTIVATION IN COMBAT SPORTS
SPECIFIČNOST MOTIVACIJE U BORILAČKIM SPORTOVIMA
Sport Mont 2012, X(34-35-36), 181-187
Motivation can be defined as conscious or unconscious experience that serves
as a factor that determines a person's behavior or her social action in a given
situation. So far, various studies had identified over 100 different factors that explain
why people engage in sports. However, the reasons for sports participation may differ
depending on gender and sports' discipline. Therefore, in this paper were examinated
whether there is a difference in the motives for sports participation among athletes
engaged in different types of combat sports, and whether there is a difference in the
motivation of male and female. The sample comprised 265 athletes (173 male and 92
female) who practiced karate, kick boxing, fencing, taekwondo, jiu jitsu, savate and
kyokushin kaikan. Athletes were offered 10 reasons for sports participation that were
to be ranked according to importance. The results showed that the love and health of
the most important reasons for sports' participation and that is the least important
reason was the wish of parents and good look. Also, it appears that health as a reason
for playing sports was important to practice karate, savate, kick boxing, and success
was the most important reason to deal with fencing. The desire of parents as the reason
was the least important in kyokushin kaikan. The only statistically significant
difference in gender appeared in ranking of money. Money was far less significant
reason for the females. One can therefore conclude that there are certain peculiarities
in motivation for sport among athletes of different combat sports and that kind of sport,
more than gender differences contribute to these differencies. combat sports, gender, motivation
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