Developing an Educational-Motor Intervention and Evaluating its Effectiveness on the Achievement Motivation in Adolescents Football Players

Rahimi, Mohammad; Gholamali, Afrooz; Vaezmousavi, Mohammadkazem; Gholamali Lavasani, Masoud

doi:10.22059/jsmdl.2023.353180.1696

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

Authors

¹ Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran Kish International Campus, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsmdl.2023.353180.1696

Abstract

Introduction: In recent decades, adolescents and young people in the country have turned to soccer and the need to pay attention to their basic training seems essential. Therefore, this study aimed to design and evaluate the effectiveness of an educational-motor intervention on the achievement motivation of adolescent soccer players.
Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, the research method was a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design with a control group. The statistical population consisted of all 12 to 16 years old adolescents attending the soccer school of Saipa Cultural and Athletic Corporation in Tehran in 2022. Among them, 60 people were selected based on the inclusion criteria and then assigned to experimental and control groups (30 people in the experimental group and 30 people in the control group). The research instrument was the Achievement Motivation Questionnaire (Hermans, 1970). The experimental group received the educational-motor intervention training in sixteen 60-minute sessions, and the control group was on the waiting list. Data were analyzed using repeated measure analysis of covariance via SPSS Statistics 23 software.
Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in the post-test and follow-up phases (P<0.05), and the educational-motor intervention improved the achievement motivation of adolescents attending soccer school (P<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, the educational-motor intervention can be effective in improving the achievement motivation of the adolescents attending the soccer school of Saipa Cultural and Athletic Corporation. It is recommended that curriculum designers in the Ministry of Sports and Youth use this method to improve the achievement motivation of adolescents in soccer schools.

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