Intrinsic Motivation Theories: Why I Still Evolved In Football

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INTRODUCTION
Why am I still involved in football? Why do I want to be a better football coach? Why did I start a new journey through university, at 44 years old, having retired from a 25 year career in the oil and gas industry? Surely the sensible thing to do is just kick back, relax and enjoy the fruits of my labour. Maybe this essay can help me find an answer or two.

DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION OF RELEVANT THEORIES
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Vallerand (2004) explains that psychologists have come to realise there are various types of motivation. The two main types are intrinsic and extrinsic. Vallerand (2004) and Biddle et al. (2015) teach us that Intrinsic motivation means taking part in an activity just for the enjoyment of participation. Vallerand et al. (1992) tell us that there are three main categories of instrinsic motivation are to know, motivation to try and better oneself and motivation to experience stimulation (sensory and aesthetic). That answers question 1! People motivated extrinsically do not take part in activity for pleasure but to win or receive rewards. Without knowing it at the time this is maybe why I became a coach. Deci and Ryan (1985) proposed there was a number of types of extrinsic motivation. The types of …show more content…

Extrinsic motivation must have entered at some point as I remember dreaming of the glory and success of the professional players at the time, pretending to be them during games and winning the World Cup. As a coach and as I have become better educated, either through experience, from academic knowledge or from attending many governing body or other relevant courses I have gone from thinking I was intrinsically motivated but really being extrinsically motivated to win, to redefining winning and realising that my intrinsic motivation to know more through experience or education and to better myself leads to the whole experience being more enjoyable for

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