Motivation of seventh grade students for physical activities in Svitavy

The bachelor's thesis deals with the motivation for physical activities of children of older school age. In the theoretical part, basic concepts such as motivation, physical activity, physical fitness and older school age are defined. Furthermore, the work divides motivation into internal and external. And also introduces the issue of children's motivation for physical activities. It defines the concept of need, which is closely related to motivation, and the concept of performance motivation. Subsequently, it presents the definition of movement and the importance of physical activities, from a social point of view and also from the point of view of health prevention. Last but not least, the work is also focused on the characteristics of the city of Svitavy and the possibilities of organized physical activities that the city offers. Briefly presents selected schools of Svitavy and their relationship to physical activities. The practical part is based on a questionnaire survey using the partially standardized MPAM-R questionnaire, which examines the strength of motivation and the strength of motives that stimulate to start physical activity. It also deals with the different results in the strength of the researched motives in the surveyed group of girls and boys, differences in the strength of..