A Study of the Impact of Athletic Scholarship on Football Achievement Motivation of University Students

Autor/in	Muhammed Shittu, Abdul Rahman Balogun
Titel	A Study of the Impact of Athletic Scholarship on Football Achievement Motivation of University Students
Quelle	In: Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 11 (2021) 1, S.61-74 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Muhammed Shittu, Abdul Rahman Balogun)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2064-2199
Schlagwörter	College Athletics; Team Sports; Scholarships; Student Motivation; College Students; Academic Achievement; Recognition (Achievement) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College athletes; Collegesport; Hochschulsport; Mannschaftssport; Scholarship; Stipendium; Schulische Motivation; Collegestudent; Schulleistung; Soziale Anerkennung
Abstract	Vividly, it is not an overstatement to say that football is the most prominent sport in the recent world. The present study is about the impact of athletic scholarship on football achievement motivation of university students. Athletic type of scholarship helps students to discover, improve and exhibit their football talent and skills. It makes effective contributions to the development of sport within the campus and prepares ambitious and hardworking college or university athletes for the challenges of actualizing their long-term ambitions to become professional footballers. Considering both empirical cum theoretical contributions of this study, the finding practically provides the following suggestions: (1) the finding pinpoints the insights and importance of athletic scholarship and encourage the stakeholders of the university to cultivate the idea of athletic scholarships by extending their scholarship schemes beyond merit and needy bases; (2) it gives an insight that athletic scholarship enables the students to study any academic program and have tendency of becoming professional footballers; and (3) importantly, it adds to the literature by investigating the impact of athletic scholarship on football achievement motivation of the students and how the stardoms of being a footballer in the campus affect the students' football interest. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01