| SMART JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDIES |
VOL. 4 |
NO. 2 |
PAPER 10 |
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A STUDY ON MOTIVATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN TOWARDS PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS |
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| K. Esther Jenitha* and R.Radhakrishnan** |
| * Lecturer, VLB Janakiammal College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India |
| ** Reader in Statistics, PSG college of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India |
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| The sports motivation is a research topic that has been at the heart of many sport and exercise science studies both in the past and present. Sports Motivation Scale (SMS) is necessary to develop and assess extrinsic and intrinsic motivation for athletes to anticipate in sports. The original form of SMS was developed by Dorcas Butt (1979) and has aimed at measuring aggression, conflict, competence, competition and cooperation in various forms of motivation for the school students. In this paper, a study of sports motivation was carried out among 100 school students practising in sports. This study helps to identify the level of motivation among the sports children and also throw light on the area in which the motivation can be strengthened so that children can show an improved performance in future. |
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