Determinants of motivation to involve in sport among FSR students at UiTM Shah Alam / Siti Nur Rashidah Kamil

Numerous studies have discovered the factors of motivation that has major influence on individual engagement in sport activities. This study investigates the determinants of motivation to involve in sport among FSR students at UiTM Shah Alam. Quantitative method was applied and survey was distributed via google form to 356 UiTM Shah Alam students. Sport Motivation Scale-28 (SMS-28) is used to test the dimension of motivation which is consisting of intrinsic, extrinsic and amotivation dimensions. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the highest motivation factors involvement in sport activities among FSR Students at UiTM Shah Alam. Besides, SPSS version 26 was used to analyze data of the result. The result showed that intrinsic motivation is the highest dimension under motivation has the highest mean score (M= 4.05, SD=0.88). The result also showed that there is no significance difference (p-value = 0.87) between genders regarding motivation factors involvement in sport activities as well in male and female. Therefore, it is failed to reject the null hypothesis. Male (M= 3.68, SD= 0.57)) reported had significantly higher participation in sport activities than female (M= 3.66, SD= 0.70). The study's findings will provide a greater understanding of the differences between genders regarding motivation factors involvement in sport activities.