Fatores motivacionais que levam pessoas com deficiências físicas a praticar esportes

Abstract

The objective this study had the aim of verifying the various motivational factors that lead people with physical disabilities to play sports. Initially characterization of physical disabilities the sports, approached the concept motivation, covering relevant aspects of research, as the motivation for practicing sports and the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that motivate people. The sample had an n = 34 subjects, 32 males and 2 females, all practitioners of sports such as basketball in wheelchairs, amputees football and tennis in a wheelchair, with an average age of 31 + 10, 2 years. The instrument used was a questionnaire adapted from Noce and Samulski (2002), which assesses the psychological factors that lead people to play sports. In general, the most important reasons for entering the sport are: "To improve your sports performance" (61%), "the pleasure of the practice of sport" (55.9%) and "to know my limits" (52 %). And the motivational factors with the lowest degree of importance for athletes are: "The financial return" (11.8%), the "personal status" (11.8%), and the encouragement of family and friends "(8.8%). Reasons are considered important: "It made you feel / Search of achievement" (58.8%); "with challenges like" (58.8%) and "to make friends" (58.8%). Finally, reasons are listed as unimportant: "The financial return factor" (55.9%), "The encouragement of family and friends" (23.5%), "Having recognized the performance of others" (17.6%) and "To succeed in the sport / Search by success' (17.6%).