An investigation of the sports participation motivation of students with orthopedic and hearing impairments
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Burgul, NazımEditorial
Universidad de Granada
Materia
Orthopedically handicapped Hearing-Impaired Sports involvement Motivation
Date
2023-04-01Referencia bibliográfica
Nazım Burgul, Hasan Bekiroğulları, Hasan Ulaş Yavuz, Ömer Bozkurt, Hüseyin Güneralp (2023). An investigation of the sports participation motivation of students with orthopedic and hearing impairments .Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers,Vol. 14(2). 464-472.[DOI: 10.47750/jett.2023.14.02.043]
Résumé
The study aims to investigate the levels of intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and amotivation
of the student athletes with orthopedic and hearing impairments towards sports participation. In the
study, survey method, a qualitative research design was used. The data were collected about the
sports participation motivation among the athletes, and the relation between the orthopedically
handicapped and hearing-impaired athletes were assessed in terms of their demographical
characteristics (age, gender, type of impairment). The participants were composed of a total number
of 100 athletes – orthopedically handicapped (70) and hearing-impaired (30) – registered in the
Northern Cyprus Sports Federation for Persons with Disabilities. Pursuant to the results of
orthopedically handicapped and hearing-impaired athletes, there is no significant difference based on
the variables of gender and type of disability whereas there are significant differences per the age
group variable.