Hello fellow bloggers hope all is well! Today we’re going to
talk about a little thing called motivation in sport. Believe it or not there
are a couple different types of motivation when dealing with sport.
Motivation, will to win, enthusiasm are a big part of sport.
Motivation defined by Sage in 1977 is the direction and intensity of behavior.
Broken down this refers to does the individual search for or are they
enthralled by certain situations and how much effort does the individual put
into the task at hand. One type of motivation is the motive to achieve success.
This deals with the joy an individual gets out of the sport, the self
confidence the sport induces, and self ability. A person with motivation like
this would enjoy a task of moderate difficulty. There’s also motive to avoid
failure. These people are ego protectors and prefer a task of either very high
difficulty or very low. An example would be your average guy playing basketball
against LeBron James. They know they are going to lose but they do it anyway
because they can walk away from it knowing they played against arguably the
greatest to ever play so they should lose. Another type of motivation is
affiliation motivation. This is more of a social aspect motivation. One example
is approval-oriented which refers to an individual playing a sport to get
approval from a certain social group. Another type of affiliation motivation is
rejection-threatened motivation. These people don’t want to let their fellow
teammates down so they are more of an individualistic athlete. For example they
would be more suitable to swimming in their own race and not a relay.
It can come as a surprise to learn that whatever type of
motivation defines you also seems to define what sport you enjoy. Are you more
of a individual player and are rejection-threatened motivated? Or are you more
of a team player that experiences approval-oriented motivation that works
better with a group of people?
References:
“MSU- KIN 173 – Foundations of
Kinesiology – Spring 2017”. Education.msu.edu. N.p., 2017. Web. 15 Feb. 2017.
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