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Achievement motivation of competitive football players in the category U19-U21
Míka, Václav ; Sedláčková Knoblochová, Michaela (advisor) ; Rusnáková, Kristýna (referee)
Title: Achievement motivation of competitive football players in the category U19-U21. Objectives: The aim of this paper was to examine the relationships between social environment, performance motivation and motivational consequences according to our theoretical framework. Using descriptive, correlational and regression analyses, we wanted to investigate the impact of this on the achievement of footballers in the U19-U21 age group. Methods: The research population consisted of 75 respondents, namely semi-professional and professional football players in the U19-U21 category from three football clubs (FK Dukla Praha, SK Dynamo České Budějovice and Aritma Praha). The study was conducted using a quantitative questionnaire, which consisted of six standardized questionnaires in their Czech version. The proximal social environment, the motivational climate, was analyzed through two measurement tools, namely the Coach - Created Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire (Appleton et al., 2015) and the Youth Sport Environment Questionnaire (Eys et al., 2009). Goal orientations were identified through the Perception of Success Questionnaire (Roberts et al., 1998). Sport motivation was measured through the Sport Motivation Scale-6 (Mallet et al, 2007). Motivational consequences were...
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Emotional consequences of achievement motivation among figure skaters in the middle school age
Geletová, Alexandra ; Sedláčková Knoblochová, Michaela (advisor) ; Plevková, Lucia (referee)
Title of the bachelor thesis: Emotional consequences of achievement motivation among figure skaters in the middle school age Goals: The aim of this work was to find out what are the emotional consequences of achievement motivation. Using the questionnaire method, we examined the level of self- determination of figure skaters in the age 11-12, how they perceive the sport and what are their reasons to do figure skating. We were interested in whether these reasons come more from internal or external motivation, or whether they feel amotivated about the sport activity. We were also interested in the goal orientation of figure skaters at this age, which may be more focused on the ego, ie based more on external motives, or may be more focused on the task, ie based on internal motives. Another point of our interest was the motivational climate. Motivational climate could be created by a coach and it could influence the figure skaters in other ways. Last but not least, the aim of this work was to find out how all these factors are related to the negative phenomena of the achievement motivation, such as burnout or dropout from sport. Methods: The research was conducted using a quantitative questionnaire, which was composed of four standardized questionnaires, in their Czech versions, which are used in...
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Motives for drop out of children in chosen basketball club
Zvrškovcová, Nikola ; Crossan, William Morea (advisor) ; Mudrák, Jiří (referee)
Title: Motives for drop out of children in chosen basketball club Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to conduct a case study via questionares and deep interviews find out reasons for drop out of female former players from the age categories 12-18 during the two last seasons from chosen basketball club. Methods: In thesis was used a quantitative method, more precisely questionnaires were sent via email to former female players and their parents. Along with in-depth interviews with three players and the club manager. For better accuracy and comparison of the results questions were constructed based on previously published studies about youth sport drop out. Results: The most important reason for drop out was feeling, that team is not interested in them. Of the ten most cited reasons two were structural and two interpersonal, six of them are intrapersonal constraints. Structural constrains appeared overall to be the least important. Keywords: Organized sport, drop out, competitive level, basketball, approach to children, specialization
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