Studying the motivations for practicing competitive sports for people with mobility disabilities

Abstract

  This study aims to study the motives of practicing competitive sports for people with motor disabilities, and for that we adopted the descriptive method because of its suitability to the issue of the study, where the study sample consisted of 15 athletes with motor disabilities who practice competitive sports, we used a questionnaire, and to analyse the results we used appropriate statistical formulas Our study found that the psychological and social domain are the most important motives, reasons and motivating factors for practicing competitive sports among people with motor disabilities, and we also concluded that economic and professional motives are weak and few motives for practicing competitive sports for people with motor disabilities. Therefore, we recommend the need to focus on the psychosocial field in raising awareness and sensitising people with disabilities in order to attract them to participate in competitive sports.