Abstract

BERNARDES, Andrea Gomes; YAMAJI, Bruna Hatsue Santos  and  GUEDES, Dartagnan Pinto. Sport practice motives in young ages: A review study. Motri. [online]. 2015, vol.11, n.2, pp.163-173. ISSN 1646-107X.  https://doi.org/10.6063/motricidade.3066.

The present study aimed to carry out a literature review of sports practice motives in young ages. The search was conducted in the Embase, Medline, PsycINFO e SPORTDiscus databases, considering articles published between 1980 and 2013 in Portuguese, English and Spanish. In the search strategy were used the descriptors “motive”, “motivation”, “adherence”, “sport” e “training” with the limits of research “child”, “adolescent” and “young”. Manual searches were also conducted in the references of selected articles. The bibliographic research resulted in locating approximately eight thousand articles. However, 26 met the criteria for compose the review. The results showed that sports practice motives in young ages were identified by interactions between individual, social and environmental factors. Mostly of the studies selected for analysis revealed motives mainly related to self-realizations associated with the domain/improving sports skills in which the Technical Competence was the factor pointed by most athletes-young of both sexes entered in different sociocultural contexts.

Keywords : motivation; adherence; child; adolescent; training.

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