Motives Behind Participation in Sport Among the People from Different Segments of the Community
Psychologically speaking, motives to participate in sport differ from person to person, gender to gender, age to age and so on. Each person enters the sport with different types of motivating factor. Every individual has a different type of mentality, mood, choice, taste and area of interest. The prime objective of the study was to determine the motivating factors of the players representing different segments of the community towards their participation. Responses were gathered from the professional and amateur male and female players representing different games. Mean and T-test were used for analysis of the data. Mainifindingss nclude that maintenance of health was on top amongst the priorities of the all respondents followed by promotion of efficiency of the body, attainment of fun & recreation, promotion of the attributes of sociability and lastly skill-development was endorsed by the respondents regarding relationship between participation in sport and development of the skill-development.