Polynesian rugby player's perceptions and experiences of professional rugby

• Main Author: Schaaf, Matani
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Pacific Island sportsmen; professional rugby; motivation; amotivation; sport psychology; Pacific Island family; Pacific Island education; Pacific Island religion; HT Communities. Classes. Races; GV Recreation Leisure; HM Sociology; Brisbane; Browning; Burgess; Donnelly; Dunlop; Findlay; Gunn; Harper; Judas; Keeler; Lewthwaite; Longhurst; Macpherson; Mara; Matheson; McNaughton; Moa; New Zealand; Newburg; Newell; Nicholson; Ongley; Pacific; Pinel; St. Louis; Tennant; Unwin; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5153

The primary purpose of the present research was to investigate the participation motivation of elite Pacific rugby players. Since the introduction of professionalism into rugby in 1995, increasingly Pacific Island players have viewed rugby as a site where they can achieve success and monetary reward...