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Abstract

Background and Aim: The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between the motivation to participate in sports activities and the perception of success and self-efficacy in athletes.

Methods: The current research is an applied research and considering that the researcher sought to obtain information about people's views and opinions through a questionnaire, the nature of the research is a descriptive survey. The statistical population of this research is athletes. (people over ۱۵ years old) form the city of Damghan and ۳۸۴ people are randomly selected as a statistical sample. The research tools included ۳ sports participation motivation questionnaires by Chaman Pira et al., Kerel's self-efficacy questionnaire and Roberts et al.'s perception of success questionnaire, and data analysis was done using    V.۲۴ and Amos V.۲۴ software.

Results: The results in the descriptive statistics section showed that most of the respondents of this research were male, most of them were between ۲۵-۳۰ years old, most of them were married and most of them had less than ۵ years of sports experience. In the inferential statistics section, it was shown that the data are normal. Then Pearson's test was used to check the correlation and the results showed that there is a significant relationship between all sub-components of sports participation (physical, mental, social/material, recreation and entertainment) with sports self-efficacy.

Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between all sub-components of sports participation (physical, mental, social/material, recreation and entertainment) with sports self-efficacy. Therefore, special attention should be paid to participating in sports activities.

Keywords: exercise training, perception of success, self-efficacy, sports participation, physical activity