Motivasi Berenang Ditinjau Dari Usia

Abstract

This study discusses swimming motivation in terms of age in Surakarta. The goal to be achieved is to determine the amount of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of someone who does swimming in a swimming pool in the Solo area. This research is a descriptive study with one variable, namely: motivation, the population used are visitors to the Tirtomoyo Manahan swimming pool. Sampling using incidental sampling technique, namely the technique of determining the sample based on chance, that is, anyone who incidentally meets the researcher. The number of samples in this study were 84 people. The instrument used to collect data uses a psychological scale, to analyze the collected document, the researcher uses qualitative descriptive analysis techniques.The results showed that a person has intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in doing swimming. The motivation varies according to the age of each sample. Intrinsic factors in the age category of children (5 years-11 years) because they want to play and are happy with water games, in the adolescent age category (12 years-25 years) as a lifestyle and add friends and fill spare time, in the adult category (26 years-45 years) as a supporter of a healthy lifestyle and improve health status, while in the elderly category (46 years - 65 years) as one of the sports for health therapy, namely asthma therapy and bone health. The extrinsic factor of the resource persons, on average, chose a swimming pool, namely because the Tirtomoyo swimming pool is in the middle of the city and has complete facilities and a clean pool environment.