Self-Determination Theory

College sports are a major part of American culture. College athletes devote hours upon hours a week to their sports training, but unfortunately, sports can take up a lot of time and distract from other important activities. This can harm academics, as athletes have to balance sports and academics, especially at a college. Participating in sports is almost like working a part-time job and having to balance school too which can be difficult to do, and focus may be rendered on one task and not both. Furthermore, athletes will be on scholarships too, which is why college athletes should not be paid.

Evidence that supports this is both measures commitment are significantly, positively related to lower dropout rates. This means that students have a strong attitude toward their school responsibilities. Ultimately, participating in a team sport will improve their work habits in future situations. Some would argue that students who are involved in their school sport affects their work in class. Opponents support their reasons by seeing the results of student’s work and test scores when they are playing on the team.

According to " The Case Against High-School Sports" (2013), sports could create some study, health, and time management problems for schools and students. In this post, Amanda Ripley initially shows the benefits when involving in the high-school sports: exercise, sportsmanship lessons, some positive personalities, more fun and staying away from vices. She also writes some tales to inform readers that in the US, students are interested and enjoy in sports more than other peers in other countries. However, she claims that the high-school sports have negative effects on schools and students. Next, she gave some schools ' examples to show the problems when schools and students spent too much time and money in high-school sports.

In 2012, Nike released a product and with it, the following advertising slogan was unveiled, “Life is a sport, make it count!” While the product in large part fizzled, the catchphrase continues to inspire athletes of all ages to stay busy with physical activity. For many senior athletes, this motto serves as a central theme in the decision process to pursue a sport at the college level. Although there are many critical crossroads that occur during the senior year of high school, none is more challenging than the resolution to invest the significant amount of time that is required of a college athlete. While there are numerous ways that a student can make “their sport count,” most credit the decision to the financial benefit package, prestige

This notion is supported by Dr. Daniel Gould, who believes that “Children who participate in sports have increased educational aspirations, closer ties to school and increased occupational aspirations in youth” (1). People against the funding of high school sports think that parents and society are placing more emphasis than ever before and, “[P]ressures athletic personnel to deviate on winning from the athlete- centered educational and personal development mission” (Gould 1). However, athletes strive to do better in class. Michael Lorenc, a high school basketball coach believes that “those who seem to have an overwhelming schedule where they’re playing maybe multiple sports, and high academic schedules, they tend to do better than those who don’t do anything extracurricularly” (Gray). Balancing sports and school makes athletes put more effort into keeping up grades while playing the sport they love.

This increased profile can attract higher-rated students who want to attend colleges with successful sports programs, which in turn results in improved academic performance for the

Primarily, people argue that colleges are a place meant solely for learning; rather, students who dual sports and schooling tend to have better time management and learn necessary life skills. The average graduation rate of athletes triumphs over the typical graduation rate of most colleges. Similarly, some argue that schools are forced to compromise academic standards for athletes, but coaches often urge schoolwork as the top priority. In fact, to remain eligible, college athletes must maintain their GPA’s. Finally, many argue that college sports disadvantage those students who don’t participate; however, college sports create a sense of pride and bond together the entire population of students.

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How Financial Grades Impact the Athletes Academic reasons take away a lot of opportunities for athletes, affects their scholarship opportunity. Academic Decisions can cause a negative outcome by not being able to qualify to play at the collegiate level. The athlete’s talents become taken for granted and could cause the athlete to become depressed and let their talent become a waste of time. Meyers (2005) uses a quote that states that “They act as liai-sons between the academic and athletics communi-ties and are primarily responsible for ensuring that student-athletes have as much academic success as their ability can afford.

500-word synopsis: Autonomy and relatedness were focused upon in our most recent workshop on the journal article titled The Importance of Supporting Autonomy and Perceived Competence in Facilitating Long-Term Tobacco Abstinence by Williams, Niemiec, Patrick, Ryan, and Deci. The article described a research study they conducted with a little over a thousand tobacco smokers. Using the ideas fostered in Self-Deturmination theory (SDT) to determine the most beneficial method to reduce the unhealthy habit. Interestingly, the participant group contained both individuals who actively wanted to quit smoking and those who did not.

Amanda Ripley has said that over 20 other nations have better high school graduations rates (10). She also stated, ”while sports do have many benefits, like exercise, lessons in perseverance, and school spirit, but it has gone too far” (Ripley 10). Like what Amanda Ripley said, even though sports provide a few little pros, they also come with the same amount of very serious cons. This data shows that sports are not one to go with academics, even though they can be quite

I will outline personality theories, views and types and how they affect sports performance, I will also talk about hoe reliable, accurate and valid the theories of personality are. Finally outline theories of motivation and how they could be put into place to create a motivational climate. (P1) Personality is someone’s way of being including mental factors such as the way they think, act and react to various situations. (M1) This is often linked to the traits because different attitudes and behaviour are put into categories from the traits theory.

MOTIVATION OF RESEARCH This area of research affects all students that partake in sporting activities in high school. Sports competitions are increasingly becoming an important part of a student’s high school profile as students that do well are given preference when it comes to scholarships, university acceptance and job applications. This has led to many students relying on steroids to boost their

INTRODUCTION Self-Determination Theory (SDT) was conceived by Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan. This theory is concerned with human motivation, personality, and optimal functioning. For the purpose of SDT and work motivation, motivation is considered the core of biological, cognitive, and social regulation. Instead of just looking at the amount of motivation, self-determination theory focuses on different types of motivation.

Unlike the other research, this study will not just discuss the different challenges, the researchers will also give inputs for them to be inspired to join being an Athlete. We will be able to know who encourage and influenced them to join. What is their study habits and their insights based on their