DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2020-3-475-485

Special features of academic and sports motivation of students engaged and not engaged in sports

Igor M. Kondratev
Student of the «Psychology» Program,
Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology

Perm State University,
15, Bukirev st., Perm, 614990, Russia;
e-mail: kim13-03-1994@yandex.ru
ORCID: : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0369-0911

Ekaterina V. Dudorova
Ph.D. in Psychology, Associate Professor
of the Department of Developmental Psychology

Perm State University,
15, Bukirev st., Perm, 614990, Russia;
e-mail: dudorova2002@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2856-6359

The paper provides results of research on academic and sports motivation of student-athletes and students who do not participate in sports. The study was carried out in the period from May 2019 to February 2020 in Perm State University. It engaged 140 students: 70 involved in sports and 70 not involved. The average age of the interviewees was M = 19.85. The following methods were used to study the students’ educational and sports motivation: Self-Efficacy Scale (as adapted by D.S. Kornienko, A.Ya. Fominykh); Self-Efficacy to Regulate Exercise (as adapted by D.S. Kornienko, A.Ya. Fominykh); Sports Motivation Scale (as adapted by D.S. Kornienko, A.Ya. Fominykh); Scale of Academic Motivation (as adapted by T.O. Gordeeva). The results of the study show that students who are not involved in sports have more pronounced types of academic motivation, such as cognitive and achievement motivation. Student-athletes are more strongly motivated than non-athletic students in such types of motivations as positive emotions, improvement, learning, achievement, approval. Student-athletes have a higher level of sportsmanship and overall self-efficacy than non-athletic students. Some correlations between sports and academic motivation within groups have been found. In the group of student-athletes, a negative correlation was found between the motivation for excellence in sports and the motivation for self-esteem in learning. As for non-athletic students, external motivation is linked to approval motivation. The positive correlation of achievement motivation with emotions and cognition has been established.

Keywords: academic motivation, sports motivation, self-efficacy, self-determination theory, student-athletes.

 

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Received 09.06.2020

For citation:

Kondratev I.M., Dudorova E.V. [Special features of academic and sports motivation of students engaged and not engaged in sports]. Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Filosofia. Psihologia. Sociologia [Perm University Herald. Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology], 2020, issue 3, pp. 475–485 (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2020-3-475-485