The effect of motivation on the resilience and anxiety of the athlete

Abstract

Throughout a sports career, a series of traumatic events or sporting failures often occur, which represent a turning point. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the influence of motivation of the athlete on resilience, and the latter, on their levels of anxiety. This study included 276 volleyball players between the ages of 18 and 31. In this study, several descriptive statistical analyzes were carried out, a reliability analysis of the factors that make up the model and a route analysis that explains the causal relationships between the variables. The indexes of adjustment of the articles of analysis were satisfactory explaining the relationships established between the factors. In conclusion, the self-determined motivation is related to the positive form with the resilience while the less self-determined forms are related to the negative form with it. Likewise, resilience is negatively related to anxiety.