The role of gender in goal orientation and motivation of participation in wheelchair basketball players

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between the goal orientation of wheelchair basketball players and their motivation to participate in sports. A total of 91 wheelchair basketball players, 40 women, and 51 men were determined as the sample. The average age of wheelchair basketball players in the study is 29.34 ± 2.91 years. The "Task and Ego Orientation Scale in Sports" 8, 22 and the "Motivation for Participation in Sports for Persons with Disabilities Scale (MPSPDS)" developed by Tekkursun et al. (2018) were used as data collection tools. "Ethics Committee Approval" document and research permissions were obtained from the Ethics Committee for the application of data collection tools to wheelchair basketball players. With the scales uploaded to the online platform called Google Forms, the data were collected on the internet using the scale method. In the analysis of the research data, the arithmetic means, frequency, standard deviation, and percentage values among the descriptive statistics, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test were used to examine whether the scale data showed normal distribution or not to determine whether parametric analysis would be performed. Independent t-test analysis was used for the pair comparisons showing normal distribution. As a result of the t-test, there is a statistically significant difference between the mean of task orientation of women and men (t = - 6.502; p <0.05). There is a statistically significant difference between the ego orientation averages of men and women (t = 7.620; p <0.05). As a result of the t-test, there is no statistically significant difference between the intrinsic motivation averages of men and women (t = - 1.720; p> 0.05). There is no statistically significant difference between the extrinsic motivation averages of women and men (t = - 1.624; p> 0.05). There is no statistically significant difference between the motivation averages of women and men (t = - 1.699; p> 0.05). The obtained findings showed that the goal orientation differentiated according to the gender variable, and the motivation to participate in sports did not differ in terms of gender.