Does self-confidence link to motivation? A atudy in field hockey athletes

Autor: İhsan Sarı, Sümmani Ekici, Fikret Soyer, Ersin Eskiler
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 24-35 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1988-5202
DOI: 10.14198/jhse.2015.101.03
Popis: Previous research indicated some evidence of a positive relationship between motivation and self-efficacy beliefs/perceived competence/self-perceptions. Therefore, the relationship between self-confidence and motivation was investigated in sport context in this study. Participants of this study were 111 field hockey athletes. Sport Motivation Scale (Pelletier et al., 1995) and Self-confidence Scales (Tokinan, 2008) were used for data collection. SPSS.17 package program was used to analyse the data. Descriptive statistics techniques, t-test and Pearson’s correlation analysis were used. According to the results, self-confidence was found to be positively and significantly correlating with intrinsic motivation to know and to accomplish things, intrinsic motivation to experience stimulation, external regulation, identification, introjection, intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation (p
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