Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of motivation on athlete’s performance in selected long distance athletes of Oromia athletics clubs. The cross-sectional research design was used and the data was collected at once time. The populations of this study were athletes and coaches of 280 and 21respectively. The target populations of the study were eight Oromia athletics clubs long distance runners and coaches of 128 and 8 respectively. Those were selected by using simple random sampling. The subjects of the study were athletes and coaches of 97 and 8 respectively. Source of Data both primary and secondary data was used and the data collection instrument was used questioner and interview. The data was analyzed using computerized statistical package software (SPSS version 20).Both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was used. Major the finding of this study show that, Oromia athletics clubs were highly motivated by intrinsically motivated (IM) (X=4.532± 0.522) than extrinsic motivation (IM) (X=2.428 ± 0.594). Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the impact of motivation on performance of long-distance athlete of Oromia athletics clubs. As the results shows that Indentified regulation is significant (p=.000) because the p values is less than (p>.05). Stimulation is significant (p=0.012) because the p values is less than (p>.05). And also External regulation is significant because the p values less than 0.05. Interjected regulation is significant because the p value is less than 0.05 and Accomplishment and to know is not significant, because, the p value is greater than (p< .05).
