Numerous studies have now documented that athletes of different competition levels vary in their motivational styles. Some are internally motivated and train to be better based on intrinsic values, whereas others are controlled by external pressures that drive performance. A third style does not make causal attributions regarding their performance and are amotivated. In the current study, we used latent profile analysis to examine unique typologies of sports motivation in 456 Czech university students comprised of both recreational and more elite athletes participating in various sports and attending a sport education program. Four qualitatively distinct profiles were distinguished varying in the composition of intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation. The four profiles differed in their mean levels of social physique anxiety, global self-esteem, and physical self-worth, three markers of how a person feels about themselves in terms of normative standards. Multiple group comparisons based on gender, individual versus team sports, and level of competition reinforced relative consistency in profile composition. Results are discussed in terms of how people can blend different motivational styles, what this portends for self-beliefs, and whether there is relative consistency across meaningful groups.

• Klíčová slova
• gender, motivation, psychology, quantitative study, team sport,
• MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mladý dospělý MeSH
• motivace * MeSH
• představa o vlastním těle MeSH
• průřezové studie MeSH
• průzkumy a dotazníky statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• sebepojetí MeSH
• sportovci * psychologie   statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• sporty * psychologie   statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• studenti * psychologie   statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• univerzity statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
• mladý dospělý MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH