Effect of Incentives on Motivation Achievement of Jordanian University Football Players

Abstract

The study aimed at identifying Effect of Incentives on Motivation Achievement of Jordanian University Football Players in the Jordanian universities. The study adopted the descriptive approach, and the study population consisted of (72) football players in Jordanian universities (Yarmouk University, University of Jordan, and Mutah University). The sample consisted of (27) players, who were randomly chosen, comprising (37.35%) of the study population. The researchers constructed the incentives questionnaire that included (30) items distributed over five domains: (physical and health incentives, material incentives, psychological incentives, social incentives, and administrative incentives). They further used the sports achievement motivation scale that was Arabized by Allawi [2], which included (20) items divided into two areas (the motivation to achieve success, and the motivation to avoid failure). The study results showed that the level of the total incentives among the soccer players in the Jordanian universities was very high. The physical, health, social and psychological incentives levels were very high; meanwhile, the administrative and material incentives levels were high. The results further showed that the overall motivation level among the football players in the Jordanian universities was high, as well as the success achievement motivation and failure avoidance motivation levels, which were high too. Finally, there was a correlational relation between the success achievement motivation domain and the motivations areas, as a whole. The study recommended placing special care to the incentives provided to the players as they contribute to the development of the players' innovative energies.