Keywords
Goal orientation
Adults
Motivation.
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Abstract
In the growing population of Spanish master athletes analyzes its motivation from the perspective of Self-Determination Theory. On the one hand trying to establish relations between itself with the perception of success, the intrinsic satisfaction and perception of the causes of success in sport. Furthermore, analyzing the differences in the intrinsic satisfaction, perception of success and beliefs about the causes of success in sport and the SDI based on several independent variables; sex, age, training habits and athletic history. We obtained high levels of intrinsic motivation (especially women), satisfaction, effort and skill, moderate levels of extrinsic motivation, and very low of amotivation, boredom and use of deception techniques. Also obtained positive and significant relationships between intrinsic motivation with extrinsic, task orientation and ego, fun and effort and significant positive relationships of extrinsic motivation to intrinsic motivation, task orientation and ego, fun, boredom, effort, skill and deception techniques, and amotivation, positive and significant relationships with extrinsic motivation, boredom and techniques of deception and negative fun. Finally, analysis of the independent variables, it is concluded to be female, under 50 years, specializing in speed, jump or shoot, directed by a coach, who trains in the company of other athletes for over two hours by session is the most advisable motivational profile.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.