The comparison of elite wrestlersʹʹ sport motivation of Iran and selective countries

ABSTRACT: Beside of the physiological and technical difficulties in sport activities mental difficulties also increase athlete’s abilities in sport events which nowadays come in speech of one of the main physical education base aspects as Psychology of Sport. This research method is descriptive-analytic sport motivation scale (S.M.S) (Brier & et al, 1995), statistic sample includes 50 Iranian and 25 foreign wrestlers participators of international competition of Pourzand Brothers 1389 (2010), spearman correlation coefficient and independent t-test are used tools and research hypothesis in this probe. Research results revealed that between Iranian wrestlers, among outward and inward motivation there is meaningful differences, while between foreign wrestlers, among non-motivation and outward motivation there is meaningful differences. Results showed in Iranian wrestlers inward motivation is in meaningful relation with outward motivation and also informed which inward motivation predicts wrestling performance. With respect to the fact of prediction of inward motivation in wrestling performance, it seems increasing of inward motivation helps to keep exercises on and progress in competition initially.