Motives for sports participation and intrinsic satisfaction in padel players

The main aim of this study was to analyze the reasons for practicing sports and the level of intrinsic satisfaction in a sample of 146 paddle players (82 men and 64 women) with average age of 39.46 (+/- 11.60) years old who trained at least two hours per week. For this, two questionnaires were used: the Participation Motivation Questionnaire (PMQ), and the Intrinsic Satisfaction in Sport Questionnaire. The results show that the factor that stands out as a reason to practice sport in paddle players is friendship / group of peers, whilst the lowest valued factor is social status. In addition, internal pleasure of the players is based on fun of playing paddle and not on boredom. Therefore, clubs must take into account and propose social and recreational tasks in order to maintain and increase the number of practitioners of this sport.