Motivation theory

Motivation Theory

Trait Theory - This is determined  by your personality. For example neymar has a trait theory as we can see on his behaviour on and off the pitch .On the pitch we can see him doing step over all through his career . As well as off the pitch we can see that neymar is a happy character and loves his family . He always makes sure that he prays before each game and kiss his tattoos. 

Situational -The is depends on the athlete motivational levels and the situation they are in for example Neymar is highly motivated on the football pitch so he can reach the best of his ability in the pitch to make a difference for his team. 

Interactional - this depends on the person personality and who they are interacting with because their personality may change depending on who they are talking with for example putting Neymar with someone he dislikes so you need to put people in the right situation and environment so that the athlete can be motivated.

Achievement- comes from your personality and how much your driven to achieve success however this can be separated in two group category :

Nach needs to achieve - this is people that are driven by feeling of pride and satisfactions and they are also they always think positive that they gonna achieve something.

Naf they need to avoid failure , they are also driven not to feel ashamed or humiliated they also have a negative thinking. My athlete has more of a nach personality because he wants to win as much things as he can and he likes to take pride in what he does .

Attribution- is based on reasons we belief in the outcome and this breaks down to 1 of 3 categories:

Stability 

Stable :When taking responsibility for a loss - Neymar took responsibility for brazil loss as he did not perform to the best of his ability.

Unstable: when you need to make excuses for your loss - for example when brazil lost at the world cup neymar made some excuses that our team did not have their best squad on the field.

Causality
internal : you are the reason of the outcome : for example when neymar works very hard the outcome is that he will have a good game to help out his team mates win games and score goals.
external: your opponent was the reason : for example when my athlete had a easy game was due to the opponent being weak and not at his best .

Control
controllable: is when you can control the situation. For example neymar trained really hard at free kicks during practise and he scored a goal the match from a freekick.
uncontrollable : is when you cant do nothing about it . For example when neymar was getting barged off the ball very easily and this was due to his opponent being bigger than him. 

Merit

The level that my athlete plays does have an influence on his motivation as he is been watched at every minute of the game because he is an icon and a role model to many people and by being professional you have lots of responsibility and this motivates you to be at yours best in every game. 

My athlete can use motivation to work harder in  training to improve his game so that he can use on the match effectively and by being motivated he will give 100% in every training session and games and this will help his game to get better . He will use motivation to work on things that he hasnt been doing great and he will train without getting frustrated because of his motivation of getting better to perform in game.

When my athlete was dropped to the bench his motivation at training drop because he hasnt been playing for the last few games and he has also been having problems outside the playing field . My athlete also gets very frustrated during during when he practising something over and over again but he doesnt get it correctly this will frustrate him and bring his motivation levels down.

if my athlete do not make the team for an important match this will decrease his confidence levels and also motivations levels and this will impact him in training in the future and also on his performance however this will make him work harder and try make the team for the next game and make sure that he makes the team every game and be at his best for every game.

An injury will effect my athlete motivation in a positive way because he will be watching videos of himself and see where he could improve and he will be very motivated to come back to the field and able to make a bigger impact to games and help his team , however its can also be bad because hes motivations levels might be down as he is not playing games and he injure spot may hurt when starts to train again and play matches and this will make his motivations levels fall because he wont want to play or train in pain.