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  • Motivation toward dual-career [Elektronski vir] : Italian and Slovenian student-athletes
    Lupo, C. ...
    Italy and Slovenia have no structured measures in place for educational services for elite athletes in higher education. Thus, this study aimed to understand motivations toward dual career of Italian ... and Slovenian student-athletes in relation to gender, age (<24, >24 yrs), and type of sport(i.e., individual sports, team sports). Ninety-eight Italian (females: n=23, age: 22.1+-1.5yrs; males: n=75, age: 24.3+-2.9yrs) and 216 Slovenian (females: n=103, age: 21.5+-3.0yrs; males: n=113, age: 21.3+-2.3yrs) college student-athletes were administered the 39 items of the SAMSAQ-EU (i.e., 30 items of the original SAMSAQ plus 9 items of the Italian version SAMSAQ-IT) questionnaire. A MANOVA verified differences (p<0.05) between groups. A 3-factor model with acceptable Cronbach's alpha coefficients (SAM=16, alpha=0.85 items; AM=14 items, alpha=0.78 items; CAM=18 items, alpha=0.85 items) emerged. Two items (i.e., 19, 39) were removed because of low threshold of acceptability. No difference for gender emerged. Regarding CAM, effects were found for Nation (p<0.0001), Nation x Age (p=0.0005), and Type of Sport x Age (p=0.0033). For AM, differences were found for Type of Sport (p=0.0256), and Nation x Type of Sport (p=0.036). No difference emerged for SAM. Despite the lack of institutional support, Italian and Slovenian student-athletes resulted highly motivated toward a dual career, independently from gender. Findings indicate that SAMSAQ-EU could be a precious tool to promote an important contribution to the development of policy actions in the area of sport and education at National and European levels.
    Source: Youth sport [Elektronski vir] : proceedings of the 6th Conference for Youth Sport, Bled, 6-9 December 2012 (Str. 111-122)
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2013
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 4362417

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    http://www.youthsport.si/images/stories/SM2012/Proceedings%20Youth%20Sport.pdf

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