Study regarding the motivation for practicing sports activities at students from University “Lucian Blaga” Sibiu

Sports activities are more and more popular among young generation being practiced for a lot of reasons starting from maintaining health level, socialization and communication, building friendships, spending free time, relaxation, self-improvement and even for getting good grades. Our study focused on analysing students’ motivation for practicing sports activities, what determines them to attend to sports lessons or to practice them in free time. The research sample was formed from 300 students from different faculties from the University “Lucian Blaga” Sibiu from first and second university year, that practice sports activities as an optional discipline in their academic curricula. The research methods used in our investigation were the study of the bibliographic references, the experiment method and the questionnaire for discovering students’ motivation and preferences. The results of our investigation showed that the main reasons that students practice sports activities are: at male students are more likely to play ball games for keeping health levels, improving self-image and develop their muscle system compared with female students that are more likely to practice swimming, running or cycling for combating obesity, develop their social lifestyle, making friendships and build strong relationship with their colleagues.