Motivation, parental style and psychological well-being of female basketball school player

ABSTRACT Motivation can be considered as one of the most researched themes in the sporting context, especially because of its relatedness with different psychological attributes and the intention of prospective practice. In this sense, this study verified the correlation between motivation, parental style and psychological well-being in 9 school basketball athletes, with a mean age of 13.6 ± 0.8 years, from a private school in the city of São José do Rio Pardo, Brazil. The following instruments were used: 1) Sociodemographic questionnaire; 2) Sport Motivation Scale; 3) Parental Behavior in Sports Questionnaire; 4) Scale of Perceived Autonomy in Sports; 5) Scale of Perceived Skill in Sports; 6) Scale of Need of Relatedness; 7) Scale of self-description (self-esteem); 8) Scale of Satisfaction with Life. The data treatment was done through the SPSS statistical package, adopting the level of significance of p