Diferentes Modalidades e Níveis de Prática: Traços de Personalidade e Fatores Motivacionais

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the relationship between personality traits and motivational factors in athletes, inactive and recreational practitioners of both sexes and choice of different sports. Method: 148 participants aged between 20 and 35 years distributed in groups by modality, level of practice and gender. Results: The significant correlations between training variables, personality traits and motivational factors were mainly for Achievement, Neuroticism and Extroversion traits, and motivational factors of Competitiveness and Pleasure. Differences in Anova between modalities were significant for Minutes of training per day, Weekly Training Frequency, Months of uninterrupted training, Novelty Search, Sociability, Competitiveness, Aesthetics and Pleasure. Between the level of practice for Training Frequency per week, Competence, Effort, Achievement, Openness to ideas, Sociability and Competitiveness. And between Gender: Training Frequency per week, Vulnerability, Dynamism, and Sociability. The interaction effect between the variables revealed significance in Gender and Modality for: Weekly Training Frequency, Effort and Sociability. Level of practice and Gender in the traits Haughtiness and Dynamism, Pro-sociability, Socialization, Competence, and Commitment. Conclusion: Differences between modalities were more expressive when considering motivational factors of Aesthetics, Sociability, Competitiveness, and Pleasure. Gender was an important moderator for the differences between personality traits between levels of practice, revealing significant results for Extroversion, Achievement and Socialization traits, for motivating factors the main one was between Competitiveness and Sociability.