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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to provide an insight and overview of what is known about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in sports. The article focuses on the assessment of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in Pakistani sports setup. It then provide to a discussion on the determinants and outcomes of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The present research entitled “Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for Pakistani elite athletes” was conducted to study the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation supported by previous research studies for sports performance. The research was conducted to keep in mind the worst performance of Pakistani athletes in Olympics games since 1948. Examining these basic ideas help to understand the behavior ofPakistani athlete.As mentioned above, we consider that it was essential to go further than the Fortier and colleagues’ (1995) effort by counting athletes’ insight of self-sufficiency, capability and relatedness in order to observe the relationships between intrinsic & extrinsic motivation. It was hypothesized that overall “motivation will positively contribute to the development of sports performance”.