Understanding the motivation factors towards sports performance within the scope of collegiate athletes

Abstract

Motivation is known as a study that examines the process of energizing and directing behaviors. It is a power that works to stimulate and directs people to do their desirable behaviors. Motivation consists of three factors which are intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation. Thus, this study focuses on motivation factors toward sports performance among collegiate athletes where the respondent is retrieved from UiTM Seremban campus.  Using the adopted questionnaire of Sport Motivation Scale (SMS) by Pelletier, Fortier, Vallerand, Tuson, and Briere (1995) which consists of 28 items have been distributed via an online platform to 210 respondents of the collegiate athletes at UiTM Seremban Campus. The data collected were analyzed using the SPSS version 27 with a level of significance at p<0.05. The results showed that intrinsic motivation influences athletes more in performance compared to extrinsic motivation and motivation. The mean for intrinsic motivation was (M = 4.09) while for extrinsic motivation was (M = 3.92) and amotivation (M = 3.54). As this study focuses on athletes in the UiTM Seremban campus, a similar study could be carried out in a high school setting for future comparative study.