Abstract

ZARAUZ-SANCHO, Antonio  and  RUIZ-JUAN, Francisco. Determinants of motivation in veteran Spanish athletes. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.47, n.1, pp.34-42. ISSN 0120-0534.

The aim of this study was to determine the motivations, precompetitive anxiety, addiction to training and competition, intrinsic satisfaction, perceptions and beliefs of the causes of success in their sport in a sample of 401 veteran Spanish track athletes (aged over 35). This study also aimed at obtaining sufficiently solid predictive models - by gender - of their motivations regarding these psychological variables. It starts from the assumption that intrinsic motivation could be predicted by having high values in pleasure and relaxation, an orientation to tasks, fun and effort, as well as low values in the use of techniques of deceit. Extrinsic motivation could be predicted by having high values in lack of control, ego orientation, fun, use of deceit techniques, and low values in task orientation. Amotivation could be predicted by a high value of cognitive anxiety, lack of control, boredom and deception techniques, and low values in fun. The results confirmed that the highest levels of motivation were intrinsic, especially in women. The perception of success in sports by task was similar to ego in both genders, in that it was very satisfactory for them to win medals. Better yet, they obtained records in their age group by the effort involved in the domain of their specialty, but the use of deception techniques was unimportant. Finally, predictive models were obtained from motivations and they agreed to a great extent with the hypothesis and references.

Keywords : Self-Determination; Causes of Sport; Success; Goal Orientation; Addiction; Intrinsic Satisfaction; Anxiety.

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