| Abstract [eng] |
Each athlete's motives areas are very different, because of differences in their composition, hierarchy, strength and stability. Factors such as social life, purposeful maturing athlete's personal growth have influence for athlete's motivation (Malinauskas, 1998). Athletes achieve the best, maximum results only then, when they know what they want, have a strong goals and correct motivation. The main problems why athletes fail and do not reach intended goals are that they did not have enough motivation. According to R. Malinausko (2007) for the head of team is easier to manage team through motivation which helps to perceive correctly and adequately explain the requirements and tasks which is necessary to emphasize. Answers in question what are the reasons why athletes doing sports are revealed in researching. The hypothesis is that for the largest and highly skilled women basketball players the main reasons why they do sports are excellence, prestige / recognition, nationality, emotions, material benefits, team reasoning and expression motives. The objective of the research - to analyze and reveal the motivation of female basketball players in various skill groups. The object of the research - female basketball player’s motivation for sports. The extent and organization of research. The schedule of sporting activity was used to analyze the motivation of female basketball players (Gill, Gross, Huddleston, 1983). 90 female basketball players participated in the research. During of the research the hypothesis proved partially. Research assistance found that mastery and nationality motives are most importance for the largest and highly skilled female basketball players, prestige / recognition and material benefits motives are most importance for the largest and lower skilled female basketball players and team reasoning, emotions and expression motives are most importance for the lower and highly skilled female basketball players. To sum up all answers, the main reasons why athletes do sports are that they love to win, playing sports gives positive emotions love to achieve successes/victories, expect to reach a higher excellence in sports, like being a member of a team, like teamwork, like to be active and to do what you are good at. |
