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Motivation for Participation in Campus Recreation Based on Activity Type Brent A. Beggs, Illinois State University Daniel J. Elkins, Illinois State University . Purpose of the study:

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  1. Motivation for Participation in Campus Recreation Based on Activity Type Brent A. Beggs, Illinois State University Daniel J. Elkins, Illinois State University Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to examine motivational differences in students based on the type of campus recreational sports activity in which they participated. • Methodology and Instrumentation: • Quota sampling procedures yielded a sample of 301 college students that participated in campus recreational sports activities • Leisure Motivation Scale (Beard & Ragheb (1983) • 32 five-point Likert scale items subsumed in four leisure motivation subscales (intellectual, social, competence/mastery, and stimulus-avoidance) • Campus recreational sports activities were divided into five categories: Aquatics, Group Fitness, Intramural Sports, Informal Sports, and Informal Fitness • Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) procedures were utilized to determine differences in motivation based on activity type • Findings and Conclusions: • The results of the study indicated significant differences in overall leisure motivation based on activity. • Students that participated in informal sports, such as a pick-up basketball game, had significantly lower levels of overall leisure motivation than those in aquatics, group fitness, and informal fitness. • Intellectual motivation was significantly lower for informal sports participants than all other groups. • Intramural sports participants were more highly motivated by social factors than informal sports participants. • Participants in the group fitness and informal fitness categories were significantly more motivated by competency mastery factors than informal sports participants. • Participants in aquatics were highly motivated by stimulus avoidance variables than those in informal sports. • Participants in intramural sports were significantly less motivated by stimulus avoidance variables than those in aquatics, group fitness, and informal fitness. • These findings suggest that students choose to participate in different campus activities for different reasons. • These findings have implications for recreational sports providers in how they market different programs and the types of experiences they seek to provide in different campus recreational sports activities.

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