Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Willis, Kimberly Juanell Pettaway
URN	etd-06132005-200614
Title	Female Basketball Student-Athletes' Motivation: Analyzing Academic Standing and Ethnicity at Atlantic Coast Conference Institutions
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Sport Management, Recreation Management, and Physical Education, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Jerome Quarterman Committee Chair
Keywords	Women's Basketball Motivation Student-Athletes
Date of Defense	2005-06-09
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The purpose of this study was to survey female basketball student-athletes, participating in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) member institutions, in order to determine their academic, collegiate athletic, and career athletic motivation based on academic standing and ethnicity. Another purpose was to validate the Student-Athletes’ Motivation toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire (SAMSAQ), a newly developed instrument used to measure student-athletes’ motivation. The Expectancy Theory of Motivation was used to discuss the perception of valence exhibited by the female basketball student-athletes. The research population for this study was N = 111. The population represented female basketball players at nine member institutions of the ACC. Two of the institutions did not participate in the research study. The research sample for this study was n = 100, which yielded a 90% response rate. Previous research that formed the basis for this study included ethnicity and motivation of student-athletes, academic standing and motivation of student-athletes, and limited literature regarding female basketball student-athletes’ academic motivation. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) results revealed there was no significant difference between academic, collegiate athletic, and career athletic motivation when analyzing academic standing. Data results for ethnicity and motivation revealed there was no significant difference between academic motivation and collegiate athletic motivation, however, there was a significant difference when career athletic motivation and ethnicity were analyzed. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the SAMSAQ and the extraction method using principal axis factoring revealed two factors would be more beneficial in an explanation of variance instead of three or more factors. The two factors were noted as academic and athletic motivation. EFA enabled the researcher to determine the SAMSAQ may need to examine two constructs instead of three (academic, collegiate, and career athletic motivation).
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