Sports Motivation, Its Psychological Aspects and Ways to Increase Students’ Motivation

Abstract

The monograph is devoted to the issues of the essence of sports motivation, its main psychological aspects, as well as the choice of ways to improve it among students of modern educational institutions of various profiles. It summarises the experience of studying a wide range of problematic aspects of the development of motivational factors among athletes of various sports, as well as among students of higher and secondary educational institutions actively involved in sports and physical culture. This monograph is of practical interest to coaches and specialists in the field of sports psychology, whose immediate responsibilities include the psychological support of athletes, the provision of advice at all stages of the training process, as well as psychological assistance in case of problems of a drop in the level of sports motivation.