Reasons of beginning, maintenance, change and abandon in brazilian female Volleyball

The practice of sports, such as Volleyball, provides the individual with great development. Several aspects lead to its practice and continuity, as well as others lead its practitioners to modify or suspend this activity. This study, which is characterized as a correlational, cross-sectional investigation with a quantitative approach, aimed to determine the main reasons that lead Brazilian women's Volleyball athletes to participate in national championships in the under-16 and under-16 categories. 18, to start, maintain, change or abandon their training and competition activities. A structured questionnaire was used (MIMCA) in a total of 576 athletes, with a mean age of 16.4 years (± 1.12). Descriptive statistics of means, standard deviation, frequency and percentages were used to analyze the answers to the questionnaires. The results identified that the main reasons that lead athletes to Start are fun and competition, to Maintenance are the influence of the coach and friends and physical/mental improvement, to Change are lack of motivation and fatigue and to Abandonment are injuries, lack of physical abilities and the influence of family and boyfriend.