Survey On The Sport Motivation Of Adolescent Student Basketball Players

The sport motivation of adolescent student basketball players has the decisive function to their sport behavior and performance.The tournament of Chinese University Student Basketball League and the Chinese Men High School Basketball League have become an important role to the development of our country's basketball sport.Thus the cultivation of young student basketball players has become one of the key aspects to the promotion of basketball of Anhui Province.This research,through investigation and study on the sport motivation of student basketball players in Anhui Province,hopes to provide theory basis for the talent selection,training,and management of provincial student basketball players in the future.This research took the English version of Sport Motivation Scale(SMS, Pelletier,& Vallerand,1995) as the theoretical base,while through a Five-statement test to establish the item pool of Sport Motivation Questionnaire for Adolescent Basketball Players.After the conduction of item selection and confirmatory factor analysis(CFA),the Sport Motivation Scale for Adolescent Basketball Players was developed. Finally the Scale was used to the investigation of the sport motivation of the adolescent student basketball players in Anhui Province.The research includes two parts:in Study one,established the item pool of Sport Motivation Questionnaire for Adolescent Basketball Players,two competitive structural models of the sport motivation of adolescent basketball players was examined.Model one was 3-1ayer-10-factor model, Model two was 2-1ayer-8-factor model.Result showed that Model 2 was accepted.In Study two,the investigation of adolescent student basketball players' sport motivation was conducted by using the newly developed Scale in Anhui Province.The result suggested that the overall level of the motivation for sports is high and the valid average scores in the seven subscales were above half of the total scores,namely 3. Among which the motivation for stimulation scored the highest and the motivation for external identification scored the lowest while Amotivation scored in the between. It was concluded that:1,The hypothesis of the model stucture of 2-layer-8-factor was accepted fitting for the sport motivation of the adolescent student basketball players.2,the Sport Motivation Scale for Adolescent Basketball Players which based on SMS has acceptable reliability and validity and could be used as an effective tool for the examination of adolescent basketball players' sport motivation.3,The status of the sport motivation of Anhui Provinces' adolescent student basketball players are as follows:high level of sport motivation with all the scores of 7 subscales above the average 3;Specifically,compare with female players,male players have higher scores of overall sport motivation,motivationtoward accomplishment and external-identification. However,there are no gender,age,and years-of-training differences in the motivation to experiencestimulation,motivation to know, external-regulation,external-introjection,and amotivation.