Motivation and basic psychological needs in basketball initiation

Motivation is considered an important factor for the success and maintenance of the practice in any sport. The objective of the study was to correlate themotivation and basic psychological needs of young basketball athletes who were in the initiation phase of sport. The research involved 53 athletes from thecity of Maringá - Paraná - Brazil, with an average age of 13.25 years (PD 2.54 years). The instruments used in the research were the sport motivation scaleand the exercise basic psychological needs questionnaire. The Spearman test was used for data analysis, assuming a significance level of 95 % ( p