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A motivação é uma variável de suma importância às práticas físicas e esportivas, exercendo considerável influência à adesão e manutenção destas atividades. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo descrever os indicadores de motivação e paixão para a prática esportiva em atletas brasileiros. Participaram 709 atletas com idades entre 12 e 36 anos (16,62 ± 3,20; 58,4% masculino), de diferentes modalidades, níveis competitivos e tempo de experiência. Todos responderam à Escala de Motivação no Esporte e à Escala de Paixão. Para as análises foram empregados teste t de Student e MANOVA. Os resultados indicaram que atletas do sexo masculino apresentaram níveis superiores em motivação e paixão para prática esportiva. Atletas envolvidos em níveis mais elevados de participação esportiva (nacional e internacional) apresentam níveis superiores em indicadores de motivação intrínseca e extrínseca, e atletas com maior tempo de experiência (entre 5 e 10 anos e superior a 10 anos) apresentaram níveis mais elevados de indicadores de paixão. Os resultados encontrados vão na direção da literatura em Psicologia do Esporte. Adicionalmente, os resultados foram discutidos à luz dos fatores sociais nos quais o esporte brasileiro se estrutura, possibilitando melhor compreensão dos indicadores de motivação e paixão pela atividade esportiva entre atletas brasileiros.

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Introduction: The judgment a child makes about his/her competence in the motor domain is known as perceived motor competence, a key element in building the child's healthy behavior; a Pictorial Scale of Perceived Movement Skill Competence (PMSC) seems to be a suitable perceived motor competence’s assessment, but its validity needs to be evaluated. Objective: To examine the internal structure, the convergent validity, and the reproducibility of the PMSC. Methods: The sample comprised 187 Brazilian healthy schoolchildren (9.6 years ± 0.8); it was applied to the questionnaires PMSC and the Self-Perception Profile for Children scale. Results: PMSC's confirmatory factor analyses indicated adjustment indexes classified as adequate for a two-factor model; there were satisfactory reliability indices (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.654 and 0.652 for locomotion and object control sub domains, respectively); convergent validity (r=0.41 and r=0.56, p<0.001, for locomotion and object control sub domains, respectively). Conclusion: These results contribute to the accumulation of sources of evidence for the PMSC as a valid tool for perceived motor competence assessment in a local and global context.

Prejudice against women's futsal players is reported in the literature. The perception of prejudice in university futsal may be lower due to the higher educational level of the players and a more open-minded context. This study aimed to describe the experience of young women university futsal players and to explore their perspective on gender prejudice in that sports practice. Methods: Ten women university futsal players (aged 18 to 30 years old) were interviewed. Data were produced and analyzed following a grounded theory approach. Results: The results showed that the athletes perceived they suffered gender prejudice for playing futsal, however, in the university context this was attenuated. The participants experienced diversified practice before specializing in futsal and felt that the support of male family members and friends was important to their engagement in futsal and soccer in childhood and adolescence. However, they also suffered from prejudice against their futsal practice coming from family and friends, struggling with the constant association between futsal practice and hegemonic masculinity. Conclusion: The participants of this study perceived less prejudice in university women's futsal in comparison to other sports contexts. Thus, the university context may have the potential to boost the practice of futsal among women.