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Swimming as a recreation ‒ adolescent swimmers’ point of view
Josipa Nekić
; Kineziološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Renata Barić
; Kineziološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
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Most of the research related to the motivation of young athletes refers to active athletes, competitors, who approach sports from an early age and start competing very early. There are many references in the literature about the advantages and disadvantages of active training that lead to a number of positive and negative psychosocial effects in children and adolescents. However, recreational sports for children and youth is mentioned less. Also, the literature rarely states how recreational sports actually works in adolescence. With the aim of raising awareness of the importance of recreational swimming in adolescence, this paper brings us a view from the angle of recreational swimmers.
The aim is to investigate differences in motivation, personality traits, self-esteem and the presence of symptoms of exercise addiction regarding to gender, age/school and whether recreational swimmers have sibling in swimming. Furthermore, the aim was to check the relationship between motivational variables personality traits, self-esteem and the dimensions of exercise dependence. 40 recreational
swimmers, age 12 to 18, participated in this study. The Participatory Motivation Questionnaire (PMQ14), the BFI Personality Questionnaire (Big Five Inventory8), the Revised Self-Acceptance and Self-Competence Scale-liking/Self-competence Scale-Revised Version, SLCS-R31 and Exercise Dependence Scale-21 (EDS-2118) were used. The obtained results showed that recreational high school
swimmers are more emotionally stable than elementary school swimmers and that they show more symptoms of exercise addiction. Significant relations of some dimensions of motivation with individual dimensions of exercise dependence was found: motives of skill, status and affiliation were positively associated with all dimensions of exercise dependence except contraction. Also, a positive relations between all dimensions of motivation and extraversion was found, and the motives of status, fitness and affiliation were positively connected with the dimension of openness to experience. There is a relation between some personality traits and the dimensions of self-esteem: those more conscientious, pleasant and less neurotic have more self-esteem. Regarding gender and sibling in swimming,
no significant differences between recreational swimmers was obtained. The result from this research can be helpful in understanding young swimmers and their “drivers” to exercise. The motivation for swimming as a recreational activity should be an incentive to invest in the development of swimming as a popular sport for children and youth.
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277876
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Datum izdavanja:
20.12.2021.
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