What Factors Motivated Youth Players Engaged in the Sport of Badminton : A Youth Sport Research Project: Motivation Factors and Related Elements on Youth Badminton Athletes

ISBN-13: 9786202026598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 108 str.

Howard Zhenhao Zeng; WenYan Meng

Opis

This study examined those essential factors truly motivated youth athletes engage in badminton practices and competitions using an Questionnaire of Badminton Athlete's Motivation and Related Elements. Participants were excellent youth badminton players from Jiangsu province, China - a place fostered many badminton world-class champions. This book is comprised of six chapters: 1. The main journal article reflected all the details about this project. 2. The appendix that included two versions of the Questionnaire of Badminton Athlete's Motivation and Related Elements; one was in English another one was in Chinese. 3. A paper that present in a professional conference. 4. The research proposal included the benefits of youth sport participation; the theoretical framework employed for this project; characteristics of where the project was conduct. 5. Documentations for conducting this research project. 6. A review of literature on the sport of badminton and the youth athletes' motivations. In brief, this monograph provides a wonderful and valuable example for scholars or graduate students who want to conduct research study in the sport of badminton.

O autorze

Dr. Howard Z. Zeng is an associate professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA. His field of study is a physical education and sport pedagogy. Over the last 35 years, Dr. Zeng has served as a physical educator and an athletic coach at college/university level and have published 15 books and 85 journal articles.