The Comparison of Gender Differences in Athletic Students’ Sports Participation Motivation

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Mozhgan Piri ¹ , Saeid Ahar ² , Ahmad Mahmoudi ³

1 - کارشناس ارشد تربیت بدنی و دبیر تربیت بدنی آموزش و پرورش شهر مشهد
2 - دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد رفتار حرکتی دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی
3 -

Received: 2014-08-25 Accepted : 2015-08-31 Published : 2015-05-22

Keywords: gender differences, motivation, Students, athlete, boys and girls, sports participation,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to compare the sexual differences in athletic students’ sporting participation motivation. It was a descriptive - comparative field study. The population of this study was the students who participated in girls and boys’ sports events of high schools of Khorasan Razavi province in 2011. For this purpose, 589 boy and girl students were selected as the sample, using stratified Taxonomy sampling method. To collect the data, Gill et al, s question was used and to analyze the data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) and Mann-Whitney analyses were conducted. The findings revealed there are significant differences between girls and boys in motivation for sport participation (P≤0.001). Also, the  results showed significant differences in motivational factors including success, preparedness, relief of energy, finding friends and fun between the girls and boys(P<0.001). No difference was observed in the components of the atmospheric group, situational factors and skill development (P≤0.001).  In all of the components except skill development, motivation to participate in was higher among girls as compared to boys.

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