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ABDELATIF Ammar

SIDI MANSOUR Yannis

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This video is meant to explain the motivation which is related to the participation in physical activity among the elderly. As a matter of fact, motivation is one of the main sources to explain how the aging people can maintain their capacities and how they experience pleasure through their physical activity. The Self Determination Theory (SDT) carries the explanation of well-being throughout ageing. Two types of motivation are described: 

Intrinsic motivation,  “I’m practising/exercising for the pleasure that I feel while doing it” and extrinsic motivation with four types of regulations: integrated regulation (“I love to hike because mountains make part of my identity”), identified regulation (“I feel like this sport is good for me, it keeps me healthy”), introjected regulation (“I exercise because it is absolutely necessary if I want to be in shape”) and external regulation (“I keep practising because it allows me to be well regarded by people that I know”/ “to avoid certain form of punishment”).

Finally, the least form of motivation is amotivation, which is referred to the lack of intrinsic or extrinsic motivation. 

This theory led to the self determination continuum, describing a self determined side with intrinsic motivation and identified and integrated regulation, and another side with external and introjected regulation and also amotivation which refers to a more “controlled” motivation. 

The first study led by Maillot et al. in 2018 compared motivations of old women who dropped out, with persistent women in a physical activity and their results revealed a higher level of self determination for the persistent women. 

The second study led by Stephan et al; in 2010 gave a multidimensional approach to motivation of older women. Old women were assessed with a french scale of motivation in sports based on the SDT and they observed three motivational profiles: 

High Introjected (introjected++, intrinsic+, external-) at 48%, Moderate introjected (introjected+, intrinsic-, external-) at 39% and High Combined (introjected ++, intrinsic++, external++) at 13% which concerned the older women (>80 years old)

These studies also revealed that the question of health and well being was a source of intrinsic motivation as well as a source of external regulation, and this external regulation tends to take more place with ageing.