Percepções sobre a motivação à prática do esporte em atletas de vôlei adolescentes

Abstract

Adolescence is a stage of life in which the practices experienced during this phase can influence the other stages, including the practice of regular physical activity; the incentive to practice sports as a life habit has an important significance for maintaining and promoting health. Given the importance of motivation for maintaining permanence in sport and reducing dropout, the objective of this work is to expand the understanding and perception of young athletes about motivation to practice sports. This study is cross-sectional, mixed with a sequential explanatory strategy; the study population was composed of volleyball athletes, in the sub 17 and sub 19 categories, aged between 13 and 18 years, from the volleyball club in the city of Uberaba-MG. For this, a questionnaire was prepared by the authors, which was applied at the athletes' training site and the data were evaluated by descriptive analysis and by linear regression using the Graphpad Prism 5.00 software, considering p <0.05, it was also a focus group with thematic analysis was carried out. The questionnaire was answered by 17 athletes aged between 16 and 19 years old, related to the athletes' motivation, 29.4% reported that they do not practice sport to obtain a healthy life and the same number do not practice sport in order to have quality of life. Already 70.6% claim the motivation to practice some sport, 35.2% to have social recognition, 41.1% practice with the motivation to have a good salary. In the analysis of the focus group, three thematic structures were obtained: motivation, influencers and impacts of the volleyball practice with the results. The data obtained by the study demonstrated that the adolescent athletes' perceptions about the motivation to practice volleyball are related to personal aspects such as self-care, self-knowledge, leisure, change in lifestyle and interpersonal, for example family experience, team sense and influence of the coach, most still believe that social recognition and good wages are the result of volleyball practice and not a motivation.