Drivet bakom prestationen : En kvantitativ studie om idrottsidentitet, motivation och uthållighet hos basketspelare

Sammanfattning

Motivation and athletic identity are central factors in athletes’ engagement and performance, but their relationship to perseverance in team sports is less explored. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between athletic identity, different types of motivation, and perseverance (GRIT) among active basketball players. Two research questions were formulated: how athletic identity relates to different types of motivation and how these variables are associated with perseverance. The study was conducted as a quantitative cross-sectional survey with 52 participants. Established self-report instruments were used to measure athletic identity, motivation (SMS-28) and perseverance (GRIT). Data was analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation. The results showed that stronger athletic identity was negatively related to intrinsic motivation and positively related to introjected regulation. The relationships between perseverance and both athletic identity and motivation were limited, although some negative associations with intrinsic motivation were found. The conclusion is that a strong athletic identity is not necessarily associated with self-determined motivation, and that perseverance may constitute a relatively independent factor in relation to both motivation and identity.