This research investigates the factors of people's motivation to participate in mini marathon in Thailand. The results of this research show that the most important factor motivating people to participate in mini marathons in Thailand is general health orientation, ie. the aim is to find a mutual benefit for public and private sector organizers to organize or develop such a supporting mini marathon event for people who want to participate in mini marathon in Thailand.
KEY WORDS: Mini marathons/ Motivation of marathoners Sales/ Psychological/ Self-image, Meaning in life/ General health attitude. Therefore, runners should train and prepare well for several weeks to take mini-marathons seriously. According to the researcher's experience, registering for mini-marathon running events was more difficult for runners, since the number of runners who would like to participate in the running event is greater than the capacity of the running event, especially for new runners.
This research identifies the motivational factors that influence people to participate in mini marathons in Thailand by focusing on the motivation.
Research Objective
Problem Statement
Research Scope
Research Questions
This chapter aims to study the various motivational factors that influence people to participate in mini marathons.
The definition of related terms
Marathons background Globally and in Thailand
In 2017, Artiwara Kongmalai, known as rocker "Toon" Bodyslam, became the first Thai person to receive the "Thailand Records" certification from the charity project called Kao Kon Lakao (everyone takes a step). He successfully ran 2,215 kilometers, a 55-day marathon during November 11 to December 25, 2017 from the southernmost part of Thailand in Betong, Yala to the northernmost in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai. In addition, in 2016 he ran 400 kilometers from Bangkok to Bang Saphan district in Prachuap Khiri Khan to receive 85 million baht for the middle-sized Bang Saphan Hospital.
These events strongly encourage Thai people to participate in marathon running and promote sustainable health which has increased dramatically in Thailand.
Motivation for Marathoners Scales
Conceptual Framework
At the end of this article, the researcher aims to explore the motivation of people in Thailand to participate in mini-marathons using four main categories of motivations: the marathon runners' scale (MOMS) and self-determination theory (SDT). To gain more insight and understanding about the reasons why people stop running marathons and to make the psychological characteristics of marathon runners more relevant.
Research Design
Population and Data Collection
Instrument
RESEARCH FINDINGS
Instruments
Demographic Information
Respondant’s Mini Marathons Performance
Main Finding
The result shows that based on the nine reasons for psychological coping factor, most respondents think that blowing off steam, improving mood are very important reasons for the psychological coping factor, while respondents think that getting away from it all and become less depressed. immaterial. From the result, the psychological coping is an important factor that motivates people to participate in mini marathon in Thailand. From the result, the self-esteem factor is an important factor that motivates people to participate in mini marathon in Thailand.
From the result, the life meaning factor is an important factor that motivates people to participate in mini marathons in Thailand. The result shows that, based on the six reasons of general health orientation factor, most of the respondents think that improving health, preventing disease and becoming more physically fit are very important reasons for general health orientation factor, while the respondents think that the reduction of a chance to attract a heart, life extension and staying in physical condition are very unimportant. From the result, the general health orientation factor is an important factor that motivates people to participate in mini-marathons in Thailand.
The result shows that, based on the four reasons of weight concern, most respondents think that helping to control weight and reducing weight are very important reasons of weight concern, while respondents think that staying physically attractive is slightly less unimportant. The result shows that the weight factor is an important factor that motivates people to participate in mini marathons in Thailand. The result shows that the affiliation factor is an important factor that motivates people to participate in mini marathons in Thailand.
The results show that, based on the six reasons of the recognition factor, most of the respondents believe that the reasons for the recognition factor are very important to bring recognition, that family or friends are proud of them and that people look up to them, and that the reasons for the recognition factor are very important, while when respondents feel they deserve respect. from peers and people in general and receiving compliments from others is not important. According to the result, the recognition factor is a slightly less important factor that motivates people to participate in mini marathons in Thailand, less than other factors, as the mean response value is below neutral. According to the result, the factor of achieving personal goals is an important factor that motivates people to participate in mini marathons in Thailand.
Table 4.22 shows all the factors with the mean response score from the highest to the lowest. Table 4.23 shows nine factors with mean response scores from highest to lowest.
Compare Mean and Cross tabulation Analysis
- Gender
- Age Group
- Monthly Income
The result shows that female respondents rate the factor "Affiliation [Feeling proud of myself] as a more important reason than male respondents with statistical significance with means of 5.91 and 5.53 respectively. The male respondents rate the factor "Recognition [Two earn respect of peers]" as a more important reason than female respondents with statistical significance, with means of 2.22 and 2.65 respectively. The results show that the older age group rates the factor "General Health Orientation [To extend my life]" as more important reason than younger group with statistical significance, with averages of 5.80 and 5.55 respectively.
Furthermore, the older group also rates the factor "General Health Orientation [to prevent disease]" as a more important reason than the younger group with statistical significance, with averages of 6.08 and 5.73 respectively. The younger group rates the factor "Competition [To beat someone I've never beaten before]" as a more important reason than the older age group, with statistical significance with means of 3.04 and 2.44, respectively. The old group rates the factor "General Health Orientation [To improve my health]" as a more important reason than the younger group with statistically significant, with means of 6.43 and 6.25 respectively.
Further, the older group rates the factor “General health orientation [To become more physically fit]” as a more important reason than the younger group with statistical significance with means of 5.60 and 5.87 respectively. The last variable, the old group rates the factor “Personal Goal [To make my body perform better than before]” as more important than the young group with statistical significance, with means of 5.95 and 5.81 respectively. The low-income group rates the factor “Competition [To beat someone, I've never beaten before]” as a more important reason than the high-income group with statistical significance with a mean of 2.88 and 2.59, respectively.
The low-income group rates the factor of "Personal goal achievement [To see if I can beat a certain time]". The low-income group rates the factor "Life Meaning [To make my life more complete]" as a more important reason than the high-income group with statistical significance with an average of 4.80 and 4.50 respectively. The low-income group rates the factor "Personal goal achievement [To make my body perform better than before]" as a more important reason than the high group with statistical significance with an average of 5.99 and 5.70 respectively.
General health orientation [To prevent disease]” as a more important reason than the high group with statistical significance with means of 5.98 and 5.73 respectively. The low-income group values the factor “General health orientation [To improve my health]”. Achieving the goal [To push myself beyond my current limits]” are more important reasons than the high income group with statistical significance with means of 6.05 and 5.84 respectively.
The low-income group rates the factor "Psychological [having time alone to arrange things]" as a more important reason than the high-income group with statistical significance with a mean of 4.81 and 4.34, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS
- Discussion
- Contribution of the study
- Recommendations
- Limitation and future research
- SCREENING QUESTIONS
- MEASUREMENT OF VARIABLES
- DEMOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION 1. Gender
According to the results, all factors can motivate people to participate in mini-marathons in Thailand, but the most important are health orientation and personal goal achievement. The result of the present research shows that the most important factors to motivate people to participate in mini-marathon in Thailand are general health orientation and personal goal achievement. The running organizers or investors should focus on these two factors that contribute the most to participating in mini-marathons in Thailand.
This study only focused on a sample of runners interested in participating in mini marathons in Thailand between. Therefore, the findings of this study cannot be applied to all running groups or clubs in Thailand. In addition, this study only measured motivational factors for respondents who participated in mini-marathons, and as a result, the standards of mini-marathon events, prizes and organizers are still not commonly considered in this research.
Additional studies should be conducted to better understand the perceived benefits of motivational factors and their impact on participation in mini-marathons. The researcher recommends conducting research in other running groups or clubs in Thailand to expand knowledge and include runners from the entire region in the analysis. The catch-up running boom at each of the ten billion running events is who has it, who's broke and who's rich.
Trend Drill Run 6 reasons why it has become the most popular sport among the people today. This questionnaire was developed by a Masters student in the International Program of Mahidol University, Thailand, to serve academic purposes as part of an Individual Research Study (MGMG697). The purpose of this questionnaire is to study and understand people's motivation to participate in mini-marathons in Thailand.
Please rate each of the following items according to its importance as a reason for your candidacy. Read each item and then tick next to the appropriate result to indicate how important that particular item is to your reason for participating in mini marathon running events in Thailand.
