Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2022 Apr 1;19(7):4202.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19074202.

Dynamic Interactive Model of Sport Motivation

Matej Tušak  1 , Donatella Di Corrado  2 , Marinella Coco  3 , Maks Tušak  4 , Iztok Žilavec  4 , Robert Masten  5
Affiliations

Dynamic Interactive Model of Sport Motivation

Matej Tušak et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Motivation variables in 11 motivational instruments of 357 Slovenian male athletes (168 elite and 189 young athletes from age 12-14) in nine different sport disciplines (basketball, football, handball, water polo, ice hockey, ski jumping, alpine skiing, sport climbing, and judo) were obtained. Different concepts of motivation were researched, such as achievement motivation, incentive motivation, participation motivation, goal orientation, satisfaction and enjoyment in sport, self-efficacy, effort, and ability attributions. The most popular framework for motivation in sport lately has been social cognitive perspective. The aim of this study was to form a dynamic interactive model of sport motivation. We tried to upgrade different models of motivation to one unique meta model of sport motivation, which would explain possible behaviours and motivation in sport situations. Different statistic methods were used to define differences among young and elite athletes and between athletes in group and individual sports. The results show important differences among those groups and suggest that specific sport discipline also has a specific footprint inside motivation. Factor analysis and discriminant analysis were used to explore sport motivation space. The results also suggest that it is possible to define some main determinants of sport motivation that can be connected to previous models of sport motivation.

Keywords: elite athletes; model of motivation; sport motivation; young talented athletes.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Projection of centroids for groups in 3-dimensional discriminant space of motivation.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Dynamic interactive model of sport motivation.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Weiner B. Human Motivation. Holt, Rinehart and Winston; New York, NY, USA: 1980.
    1. Bandura A. Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2001;52:1–26. doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.1. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Bandura A. On the Functional Properties of Perceived Self-Efficacy Revisited. J. Manag. 2012;38:9–44. doi: 10.1177/0149206311410606. - DOI
    1. Harter S. A new self-report scale of intrinsic versus extrinsic orientation in the classroom: Motivational and informational components. Dev. Psychol. 1981;17:300–312. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.17.3.300. - DOI
    1. Harter S. The relationship between perceived competence, affect, and motivational orientation within the classroom: Processes and patterns of change. In: Boggiano A.K., Pittman T.S., editors. Achievement and Motivation: A Social-Developmental Perspective. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK: 1992.

Publication types

LinkOut - more resources