VALUE ORIENTATIONS AND MOTIVATIONAL STRUCTURES IN DANCE STUDENTS

Year 2011, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 457 - 466, 01.12.2011

Tereza Vrbová Michal šafář

Abstract

The paper focuses on value orientations and motivational structures of dance students. It also compares the results found in dancers with an average population of their age. Method of LMI standardized questionnaire, which consists of seventeen scales of professional achievement motivation, was used to collect the data. The research sample consisted of 13 female dancers - students (aged 17 - 19 years) of the seventh (last but one) class of a dance conservatory. They are to become professional dancers. They follow general high-school subjects and they usually attend three or four ninety-minute-long dance lessons each day. The results of this pilot study showed stronger achievement motivation in dance students than in their peer population

Keywords

LMI questionnaire, Value orientation, Motivation, Dance

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