the aim of this study was to determine the effect of win orientation (willingness to win) on sport commitment dimensions in women's football premier league of iran. research method was correlation and application in terms of aim. the population consisted of football players of 11 premier league teams in iran (n=200) who participated in the 2nd women's premier league and had at least 6...

the purpose of this study was to analyze those factors affecting volunteering in sport associations of universities in tehran. the research was a descriptive, survey and field study and was categorized as an applied research based on its aim as well. in order to collect the data, a questionnaire (andam, 2007) was used and distributed among target population which consisted of all boys and girls...

Objectives: Pelletier, Rocchi, Vallerand, Deci, and Ryan (2013) proposed a new version of the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS; Pelletier, Fortier, Vallerand, Tuson, & Blais, 1995) as a measure of different types of behavioral regulations in sport, as outlined in self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000). They examined various aspects of reliability and validity of scale scores, and concluded th...

Feeling connected with significant others has long been recognized as a central aspect of human motivation (e.g., Atkinson, 1964; Bowlby, 1969; Maslow, 1954; Rogers, 1951). However, the construct of belonging has received little attention from sport motivation researchers apart from a description of social motives for involvement and social sources of enjoyment (e.g., McCullagh, Matzkanin, Shaw...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between motivation and commitment of volunteers in 9th sport olympiad of iran universities. the statistical population of this study included all volunteers (n=240) who participated in this event (women and men). 147 subjects were randomly selected as the sample of this study according to morgan table. kinso (2007) questionnaire was us...