| Abstract [eng] |
The sports activities motivation research topic is always urgent as is the body culture in the context of public health policy. Human evolution is based upon learning while observing other individuals’ experience and sharing with one’s own. So, parental example is the general nurturing efficiency precondition. The fact that woman’s attitude towards body culture and skills can influence both valuables of a child and health of entire future generations, stimulated to analyse the factors predetermining women’s motivation factors towards physical activity and their expression. Subject of research: the factors predetermining women’s motivation towards physical activity. Aim of the study: to analyse expression of the factors predetermining women’s motivation towards physical activity. Methodology of the study. Holistic health education and humanist psychology and pedagogy provisions, motivation theory, phenomenology theory. Methods of research: literature analysis, interview, questioning survey, mathematical statistics. Survey sample and organization. Interview: women fond of sports in Diana Sports Club (N=10). Questioning survey, using sports/physical activities motives description (Markland, Ingledew, 1997): Lithuanian women, engaged, no longer engaged and not engaged in sports (N=340). The hypothesis set was fully confirmed. Significance of the feeling experienced while sporting for women’s motivation for physical activities was established. 1. Qualitative research findings: 1.1 Main motive to start sporting is weight control. 40 per cent of the women did not want to sport, but the tried and liked it. 1.2 Main motives to engage in sports: improvement of physical preparation, result, good emotions, pleasure. 1.3. All women, even who with difficulty managed, during the physical load feel good and after the load they feel excellent. This helps in bringing oneself to take exercises. 2.4. If no joy is felt, motivation for physical activity fades out. 3. Quantitative research findings: 3.1 Both the most important (seeking for health, recreation, strengthening physical power, weight control) and the least important (competition, social acknowledgement, challenge, health problem solution) in all the groups are similar. Only stress overcoming and sporting joy motives differed. . 3.1. The stronger is the sporting joy, the better is stress overcoming and vice versa (r = 0,687; p < 0,01). 3.2 Health problem solution motive is important for the sporting women who feel no joy. 3.3 In all the groups the sporting joy motive does not depend on age. 3.4 Sporting joy motive is determined by length of being engaged and not being engaged in sports. 3.4 In organized trainings women experience more moving joy that working individually. 4. According to respondents, school has made larger influence on their physical activity than parents, but they also tend to think that they have significante influence on their own children. In the sporting women group, the younger is the respondent, the stronger is parental influence compared with school. Women no longer engaged in sports prefer school influence. The women who were never engaged in sports, assigning less points show that neither parents nor school nurtured in them positive attitude to the body culture and the need to move. |
