Motivação para prática esportiva e sua relação com características da personalidade em atletas de esportes olímpicos de combate

Abstract

Actually, the increase on combat sport practitioners, as such the changing among modality is evident. Therefore, it is important to investigate which real motivations to practice of such sports. Additionally identify personality characteristics of these athletes is important because this variable could be influence on competition performance. The aim of the current study was to identify the motivations for sports and main personality characteristics and finally, to correlate the two variables. To do so were evaluated 150 athletes, age over 18 years, of both sexes, from four combat sports (Boxing, Wrestling, Judo and Taekwondo). Two instruments were used: Scale of Reasons for Sports Practice (SRSP) and the model of Big Five Personality (BFP). The results showed that, on motivational dimensions, skills with higher scores were health and technical, indicating the great importance that these variables have to combat sports athletes. The results showed that personality of Combat sports athletes had as a major feature of Kindness. Finally, after correlate the motivation to sports with personality characteristics in combat sports athletes, we conclude that there is no correlation between the variables studied.