Revista Brasileira de Psicologia do Esporte
On-line version ISSN 1981-9145
Abstract
BALBINOTTI, Marcos Alencar Abaide and BALBINOTTI, Carlos Adelar Abaide. Motivation and future view on the youthful tennis. Rev. bras. psicol. esporte [online]. 2008, vol.2, n.2, pp.1-20. ISSN 1981-9145.
This paper deals with Human Motivation concerning sports. It aims to present and discuss Nuttins Human Motivation Theory (1980a, 1985), as well as Lens (1993) and Ruels (1987) contributions - involving future time perspective motivation notion, and motivation and Self representation, respectively, highlighting the relevance of their applications within youth tennis context. Nevertheless, such a review allowed for the exploration of possible concepts related to the motivation construct, especially regarding future time perspective and its applicability to young tennis players. The conclusion is that motivational signification, in future time perspective, is characterized by the behavior in a sequence set organized in time. The uniformity of the various researches demonstrates that long term thinking individuals privilege the future, instead of the past.
Keywords : Motivation; Future time perspective; Tennis players.