Building a scale of some players' motivation to practice wheelchair basketball

Abstract

The aim of the research is to build a measure of some of the motivations of the players to practice wheelchair basketball, as well as to identify the most important motives for wheelchair basketball players, and to identify the differences between the motivations of the players to practice wheelchair basketball, and. The researcher adopted the descriptive approach in the survey method and case study. The research community was represented by wheelchair basketball players, whose number is (84) players, and the scale building sample of (40) players was randomly selected and the survey sample numbered (19) players, while the number of the main research sample (the application sample) was (25) players, The researcher used the questionnaire, tests and measurement as measuring tools, and the measure of the motivations of the players to practice wheelchair basketball was prepared, after determining some of its dimensions by presenting the special questionnaire to a group of experts and specialists, as four dimensions were identified (health and physical motives, and social motives. And personal motives, and psychological motives), and the scale paragraphs amounted to (28) paragraphs distributed on the four dimensions, and alternatives answered according to a triple scale (agree, hesitant, disagree). Treating the results by appropriate statistical means. According to the results, the researcher concluded several conclusions, the most important of which is that the members of the research sample have good grades in the scale of some of the motives of the players to practice wheelchair basketball, in addition to the presence of moral differences between some of the motives of the players to practice wheelchair basketball, and one of the most important recommendations is to emphasize the need for Interest in some of the motivations of players to play wheelchair basketball.