Abstract
The main aim of this work was to find out why children between 6 – 10 years of age attend an athletics prep school, which kind of their motivation prevails – external or internal and how intensive this motivation is. The work should show if there are any differences between boys’ and girls’ motivation.
The next aim was to find out what the parents’ motives and aspirations are. In our thesis we used an explorative method of non-standardized questionnaire for collecting data and determining the kind and intensity of motivation.
Children from 6 to 10 years old are highly motivated to attend an athletics prep school. Middle to high intensity of motivation predominates, external and internal motivation is on the same level.
There is no significant difference between boys and girls. Parents bring children to athletics prep schools mainly because they think that it is a good preparation for other sports, most of them do not require high performance, they want their children to enjoy athletics.