Date of Award

1-1-2001

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Education

Department

-

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

The aim of survey was to assess the participation motives of hockey players who participated in the interschool tournament in Penang. The research focused on hockey players between the age of 13 and 18 years, and the intensity of the game (level of play in tenn of skills, speed and agility) only limited to the state level tournament. Six research questions were studied and the results could provide meaningful information for physical education teachers, Coaches as well as administrators when they plan sport or hockey training pogrammes or to carry out other sports activities. A hundred and forty four school hockey players comprising equal number of boys and girls., were asked to answer the questionnaires that were translated into the Malay Language. The original questionnaire was developed by Gill, Gross & Huddleston (1983). A pilot study of the translated questionnaire was carried out to determine its reliability. Descriptive statistics and one-way analysis of variance were used to assess the six research questions. The study assesses the motive items and motive factors in relation to gender. age and year of experience. The results of the study showed that skill development motive, social motive and achievement motive were three motives which were given high mean scores. The results also showed that sport participation motivation is multi-dimensional. Boys and girls shared the top three motives for their participation, that is, "to improve skills", "like the team spirit'' and "to be physically fit". Excitement motive appeared to be less important for boys compared to the girls at this level of play. It was found that boys were more motivated to go to a higher level. The boys also considered skill development motive more important compared to the girls. Players in the Under-15 age group indicated "learning new skills" as one of their prime motives. Eight motive items showed significantly between these two groups. Generally the differences in their participation motives were due to their socio-psychological development as well as the effect of the intensity of the Under l 5 and Under-18 games. Fun factor, friendship factor and energy release factor were tested to be significant. Those with 3 or more years of experience indicated that competition, challenge and winning as three motives that were more important than those who had less than 3 years of experience. Analysis of variance showed that winning., rewards, feeling of importance, teamwork, and being with friends and energy release were motive items that were significant between the two groups. It was found that the more experienced played for achievement and success, although both groups considered skill development and team orientation as very important. Fun factor and energy release factors were significantly different as the more experienced group indicated higher mean scores. Fun factor which was a prime motive in earlier studies was only given moderate importance in this study. Nonetheless achievement motivation as well as competence showed significantly in relation to age, gender and experience.

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Dissertation (M.A) -- Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya

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