Motivation in group sports concerns about facilitating coorperation among members of a team. Many forms of influence act upon team motivation because a team conducts its business before the observers who are emotionally involved in the results of its performance. Furthermore, an individual as a member of a team retains his own personal motive as well as group motive. For arousing team motivation, coaches should consider individual members as well as their team as an unit. As ways to build motivation of individuals, a brief discussion of three different approaches; the supportive approach, the reinforcement approach, and the pride-in-approach are presented. For an approach to team motivation, Atkinson`s theory of achievement motivation is discussed. Atkinson theorized that group motivation is high when the desire for group success is stronger than the desire to avoid group failure. To develop a desire for group success to arouse team motivation, coaches should (1) set a realistic goal, (2) combine personal and group goals, (3) make individual members internalize their group goal (4) and get pride from their performance. The strategies for arousing team motivation are presented.

• 김성옥 | Seong Ok Kim