Browsing by Subject "Self-determined motivation"

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    Motivación e intención de permanecer en el entrenamiento de natación durante una temporada competitiva: una comparación entre grupos de edad
    (Universidad de Murcia: Servicio de publicaciones, 2025) Souza, Luiz; Santos, Catarina C.; Fernandes, Ricardo J.; Monteiro, Diogo; Costa, Mário J.; Sin departamento asociado
    This study aimed to examine variations in motivational regulation and the intention to remain in swimming training across a competitive season, considering different age groups. A total of 154 competitive swimmers participated and were categorised as young, youth, junior and senior. Data were collected at three points during the 2023–2024 season (December, March and June), using the Behavioral Regulation Sport Questionnaire and specific intention tems. Results indicated that younger swimmers maintained higher levels of self-determined motivation throughout the season, whereas youth and junior groups experienced greater motivational shifts and a decrease in intention. Interestingly, senior swimmers reported higher levels of controlled motivation, along with increased intention to remain. These findings suggest that both motivation and intention to continue training are age-dependent, emphasizing the importance of age-sensitive strategies to support sustained engagement in competitive swimming
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    Motivación e intención de permanecer en el entrenamiento de natación durante una temporada competitiva: una comparación entre grupos de edad
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicios de publicaciones, 2025) Santos, Catarina C; Fernandes, Ricardo J.; Monteiro, Diogo; Costa, Mário J.; Souza, Luiz; Sin departamento asociado
    This study aimed to examine variations in motivational regulation and the intention to remain in swimming training across a competitive season, considering different age groups. A total of 154 competitive swimmers participated and were categorised as young, youth, junior and senior. Data were collected at three points during the 2023–2024 season (December, March and June), using the Behavioral Regulation Sport Questionnaire and specific intention tems. Results indicated that younger swimmers maintained higher levels of self-determined motivation throughout the season, whereas youth and junior groups experienced greater motivational shifts and a decrease in intention. Interestingly, senior swimmers reported higher levels of controlled motivation, along with increased intention to remain. These findings suggest that both motivation and intention to continue training are age-dependent, emphasizing the importance of age-sensitive strategies to support sustained engagement in competitive swimming.
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    Self-determined motivation and competitive anxiety in athletes/students: a probabilistic study using Bayesian networks
    (Frontiers Media, 2019-09-06) Ponseti, Francisco Javier; Almeida, Pedro L.; Lameiras, Joao; Martins, Bruno; Olmedilla Zafra, Aurelio; López Walle, Jeanette; Reyes, Orlando; García Mas, Alexandre; Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos
    This study attempts to analyze the relationship between two key psychological variables associated with performance in sports – Self-Determined Motivation and Competitive Anxiety – through Bayesian Networks (BN) analysis. We analyzed 674 university students that are athletes from 44 universities that competed at the University Games in Mexico, with an average age of 21 years (SD = 2.07) and with a mean of 8.61 years’ (SD = 5.15) experience in sports. Methods: Regarding the data analysis, firstly, classification using the CHAID algorithm was carried out to determine the dependence links between variables; Secondly, a BN was developed to reduce the uncertainty in the relationships between the two key psychological variables. The validation of the BN revealed AUC values ranging from 0.5 to 0.92. Subsequently, various instantiations were performed with hypothetical values applied to the “bottom” variables. Results showed two probability trees that have extrinsic motivation and amotivation at the top, while the anxiety/activation due to worries about performance was at the bottom of the probabilities. The instantiations carried out support the existence of these probabilistic relationships, demonstrating their scarce influence on anxiety about competition generated by the intrinsic motivation, and the complex probabilistic effect of introjected and identified regulation regarding the appearance of anxiety due to worry about performance.