Features of Motivation of Students Involved in Rifle Shooting (According to the Sport Motivation Scale Questionnaire)

In this article the author studies the motivation of students involved in rifle shooting in the sport club of the uni-versity, using the Sport Motivation Scale questionnaire. The study involves 68 student shooters. It is empha-sized that the results of processing the answers provided by the respondents revealed intrinsic motivation as the leading one for the students-shooters of different courses. Demotivation of learners is investigated in detail in the study. Demotivation is correlated with internal motivation and the motive of goal displacement. Shooting students of the second and third years of study, especially those without sports categories, have a high level of demotivation; they also have a lower level of motives for self-development and learning new things. It is as-sumed that increased levels of demotivation are associated with poor sports results. Also, the levels of motiva-tion and demotivation depend more on the duration of classes, including in combination with existing catego-ries, rather than on sports categories as such.