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Participation Motives among Students of Al - Ahliyya AmmanUniversity in Competitive Sport Activities for some of theGroup Games

Journal: Albalqa Journal for Research and Studies (Vol.19, No. 1)

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Page : 11-25

Keywords : motives; competitive sport programs; group games;

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Abstract

This study aims to introduce motives behind the participation of students from Al-Ahliyya Amman University in competitive sport activities/programmes for group games. The study also points out the differences in motives relative to variables such as gender, games, practices, and years of experience. The study sample is conducted on one-hundred male and female students selected randomly from those students who have participated in football games and basket games for the league of the University Faculties. Gill-1983 is utilized for measurement of motives. Gill-1983 consists of four fields: the social, the personal, the technical, and the psychological. They are all presented in paragraph 30. For the purpose of the study, arithmetic averages, standard deviations, T test, and the test of one-way analysis of variance are all used. The study concludes that the motives behind participation in competitive athletic programmes are significantly important in all components of measurements. It also indicates that there are no differences in motives relative to sex and type of games while there are significant differences in motives relative to more than five years of experience in three fields namely, the social, the personal, and the technical.

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