The relationship between self-efficacy and sports motivation of participants in public sports

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy and sports motivation of participants in selected sports. In terms of its purpose, the current research is one of the applied researches and based on the method of data collection, it is a descriptive study and one of the correlation designs. The statistical population of the research includes all participants in various sports (yoga, physical fitness and dojball) and public sports in the city of Semiram, Isfahan, and the number of the population of this research is unlimited. In this research, due to the unlimited population, the research sample was determined by using Morgan's table of 384 people. The research tools in this study were two Shannon-Moran and Chris self-efficacy questionnaires and Markland and Engeldeo's sports motivation questionnaire. Pearson's correlation test and one-sample t-test were used to check the relationship between research variables. The results of the research showed that the level of self-efficacy and sports motivation of the participants of different sports disciplines was at a favorable level and was higher than the average of the society. Also, the results showed that there is a significant relationship between self-efficacy and sports motivation of participants in different sports disciplines.