Achievement motivation and its relationship to students' triple jump performance

Abstract

The research aims to identify the achievement motivation of students at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Diyala, through the researcher's achievement motivation scale (Achievement Motivation) designed by (Willis, 1982) (Alawi, 1998, 181). It originally consisted of (40) items. Muhammad Hassan Alawi (1998) Arabized, abbreviated and modified the scale after conducting some initial applications. In its final version, it includes only (20) items. The scale consists of two dimensions, namely (dimension Motivation and achievement of success) and also the effectiveness tests of the triple jump, and the descriptive approach was used with a correlation relationship due to the nature of the problem’s suitability. After collecting the data, it was processed using the statistical package (spss), and the study concluded that there is a positive correlation relationship with a direct direction between the research variables, meaning that the higher the achievement motivation, the higher the Performance in the triple jump event. The study recommended the use of psychological measures to measure other variables in various sporting events, as well as focusing on the learner's psychological aspects.