Motivation and Adherence of Female Junior Basketball Players in Transition to Professional Stage
Vol.11,No.1(2017)
The purpose of the research is to discover and understand the determinants of the motivation and adherence leading female junior basketball players to continue playing game of basketball at the professional stage. The research is based on the theory of Career Transition (Alfermann & Stambulova, 2007) and the theory of the motivational structure. The data is collected via semi-structured interviews with qualitative analysis of gathered statements. The processed data is from twelve female respondents from categories of junior and cadet (age 15–18). The preliminary results suggest that the most important aspect is communication between team members, the opportunity to progress and to improve basketball skills, sense of achievement. Another important aspect is represented through the time management, the most occurring reason for termination of the basketball career.
motivation; transition; communication; improvement; dynamics; lifestyle; time management
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