The purpose of this study was to survey female basketball student-athletes, participating in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) member institutions, in order to determine their academic, collegiate athletic, and career athletic motivation based on academic standing and ethnicity. Another purpose was to validate the Student-Athletes' Motivation toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire (SAMSAQ), a newly developed instrument used to measure student-athletes' motivation. The Expectancy Theory of Motivation was used to discuss the perception of valence exhibited by the female basketball student-athletes. The research population for this study was N = 111. The population represented female basketball players at nine member institutions of the ACC. Two of the institutions did not participate in the research study. The research sample for this study was n = 100, which yielded a 90% response rate. Previous research that formed the basis for this study included ethnicity and motivation of student-athletes, academic standing and motivation of student-athletes, and limited literature regarding female basketball student-athletes' academic motivation. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) results revealed there was no significant difference between academic, collegiate athletic, and career athletic motivation when analyzing academic standing. Data results for ethnicity and motivation revealed there was no significant difference between academic motivation and collegiate athletic motivation, however, there was a significant difference when career athletic motivation and ethnicity were analyzed. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the SAMSAQ and the extraction method using principal axis factoring revealed two factors would be more beneficial in an explanation of variance instead of three or more factors. The two factors were noted as academic and athletic motivation. EFA enabled the researcher to determine the SAMSAQ may need to examine two constructs instead of three (academic, collegiate, and career athletic motivation). / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Sport Management, Recreation
Management, and Physical Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy.. / Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2005. / Date of Defense: June 9, 2005. / Women's Basketball, Motivation, Student-Athletes / Includes bibliographical references. / Jerome Quarterman, Professor Directing Dissertation; Susan Losh, Outside Committee Member; E. Newton Jackson, Jr., Committee Member; Aubrey Kent, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_169155 |
| Contributors | Willis, Kimberly Juanell Pettaway (authoraut), Quarterman, Jerome (professor directing dissertation), Losh, Susan (outside committee member), Jackson, E. Newton (committee member), Kent, Aubrey (committee member), Department of Sport Management (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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