Motivation for female futsal practice

Martins, Conceição; Moreira, Teresa; Duarte, João; Campos, Sofia; Martins, Rosa; Vieira, Marco

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Motivation for female futsal practice

2018-06Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Martins, Conceição
dc.contributor.author	Moreira, Teresa
dc.contributor.author	Duarte, João
dc.contributor.author	Campos, Sofia
dc.contributor.author	Martins, Rosa
dc.contributor.author	Vieira, Marco
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-03T15:51:24Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-03T15:51:24Z
dc.date.issued	2018-06
dc.description.abstract	What are the female motivations to practice futsal? This study was undertaken to answer this question. Motivational studies highlight the reasons why young people engage in regular physical activities. The interest in physical activity is associated with the occupation of free time or with health and physical, psychological and social well-being. The objectives of this study were to identify the sports motivations that lead the athletes to the practice of indoor soccer and to discover to what extent age, years of competition and club where the modality is practiced motivates the athletes to practice this sport. A quantitative, descriptive-correlation and cross-sectional design was applied. A questionnaire of motivation for sports activities (QMAD), with 30 motivational items was used to collect data on 53 randomly selected female indoor soccer players from clubs in Viseu, Portugal. No significant difference was found in mean ordering between groups, which does not confirm our hypothesis that the older athletes present superior motivation indexes for the practice of futsal compared to that of the younger athletes, meaning that age is not a variable that explains motivation for practice. Differences between clubs is significant in relation to physical form, general affiliation, specific affiliation, and general motivation. It is only in the motivation due to the status that the differences between the groups are significant, which confirms the hypothesis in this factor, but does not confirm it in the remaining ones. The findings of this study make it possible to provide some contribution to enhance the motivation for female futsal athletes.	pt_PT
dc.description.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	pt_PT
dc.identifier.citation	Martins, C., Moreira, T., Duarte, J., Campos, S., Martins, R., & Vieira, M. (2018). Motivation for female futsal practice. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences, 42, 80-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.06.02.9	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.06.02.9	pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn	2357-1330
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/5080
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Future Academy	pt_PT
dc.relation	FCT	pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.futureacademy.org.uk/publication/EpSBS/icSEP2018UniversitateaSpiruHaret/	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Motivation	pt_PT
dc.subject	Female gender	pt_PT
dc.subject	Futsal	pt_PT
dc.title	Motivation for female futsal practice	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.conferencePlace	Universitatea Spiru Haret - Roménia (2018)	pt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage	91	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	80	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	42	pt_PT
rcaap.rights	openAccess	pt_PT
rcaap.type	article	pt_PT