Why Do Children and Adolescents Participate in Physical Activity and Sports? Exploring Perspective of Athletes, Parents, and Coaches

Babaei Zarch, Ghasem; Salehi, Hamid; Hemmati, Reza

doi:10.22059/jmlm.2018.244318.1311

Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license

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¹ .M.A. in Sport Psychology. Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

² Associate Professor, Motor Behavir, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jmlm.2018.244318.1311

Abstract

The purpose this research is investigating the attitude of children, adolescents, parents and trainers towards sport and physical activity. This research was conducted in qualitative method and using semi structured interview with 25 interviewees including 12 children, 8 and 5 coaches were parent. Press Briefing was all recorded and transcribed to text implementation. Finally the data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis method. Research findings are categorized into intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation includes psychological and need of achievement motivations and extrinsic motivation includes opportunities, well-being and health motivations, getting support from family, trainers and environment, external motivations, community motivations, improving life skills life, implication of role models and media, and focusing on work without getting distracted. Based on results of this research, it can be said that young athletes tend to do sport for different goals in mind the most important of which is psychological motivations. Parents and trainers for encouraging them toward sport and to achieve their own goals should be used this kind of motivations.The purpose this research is investigating the attitude of children, adolescents, parents and trainers towards sport and physical activity. This research was conducted in qualitative method and using semi structured interview with 25 interviewees including 12 children, 8 and 5 coaches were parent. Press Briefing was all recorded and transcribed to text implementation.

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Why Do Children and Adolescents Participate in Physical Activity and Sports? Exploring Perspective of Athletes, Parents, and Coaches

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Volume 12, Issue 1
July 2020
Pages 31-47

Why Do Children and Adolescents Participate in Physical Activity and Sports? Exploring Perspective of Athletes, Parents, and Coaches

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Volume 12, Issue 1July 2020Pages 31-47

Volume 12, Issue 1
July 2020
Pages 31-47