Motivação e flow-feeling em jovens jogadores do basquetebol

Abstract

The aim of this research was to identify the reasons that young athletes to practice basketball based on the Self-determination theory and also identify and analyze the 9 Dimensions of Flow-Feeling and compare them with the existing literature. To answer such questions were developed three articles. In all studies, the sample consisted of 59 young basketball athletes belonging to 5 different teams, 2 of those being considered elite team. In the first study, it sought to understand how the motivation process occurs according to the Self-Determination Theory. The second was a qualitative analysis of the flow-feeling aspects of trying to understand how the basketball influence on the dimensions of flow state. The third study aimed to understand the relationship of age and time to practice in the state of flow. According to the results it is concluded that the sample is studied motivation predominant intrinsic and athletes have low levels of desmotivation. Regarding the Flow-feeling, the dimensions were most frequently in the speech of sense of control; autotelic experience, challenge-skill balance, clear goals; Concentration on the task hand. Since the first dimension may be interfered practical time the athlete. The dimensions quoted less was loss transformation of time; action-awareness mergim, loss of self-consciousness, unambiguous feedback as well as the total flow can suffer interference from the age of the athlete.