ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION OF PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND OF SPORT ABANDONMENT IN LA HABANA (CUBA)

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  • Francisco Ruiz Juan
  • María Elena García Montes
  • Arturo Díaz Suárez
Keywords: actividad física, Ciudad de La Habana (Cuba), motivos de práctica, abandono deportivo, inactividad, sedentarismo

Abstract

Leaving of the achievement goals from Duda perspective (Duda, 1992), in this work the reasons of practice of physical and sport activity are analyzed in the population of La Habana bigger than 15 years, impacting along this study in pertinent analyses to investigate about basic characteristics that are related with motivations that are underlying in each one of established profiles of sport practice. This way, variables as age, sex, level of studies, development profesional…are analyzed with the purpose of determining why people participate in a sport activity, obtain-ing the factors that favor the practice of physical-sport activity in function of diverse aspects this way. Likewise, the reasons of abandonment of physical-sport practice are described, as well as the reasons of not having practiced sport activity up to now, analyzing the variables implied in the same ones thoroughly, in altars to settle down which are the present ob-stacles that are influencing in the increment of the inactivity among La Habana population.

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Author Biographies

Francisco Ruiz Juan

Universidad de Murcia

María Elena García Montes

Medida; motivación; deporte; fitness; salud.

Arturo Díaz Suárez

Universidad de Murcia
How to Cite
Ruiz Juan, F., García Montes, M. E., & Díaz Suárez, A. (2007). ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION OF PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND OF SPORT ABANDONMENT IN LA HABANA (CUBA). Anales de Psicología / Annals of Psychology, 23(1), 152–166. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/23081
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