Attitudes and Motivational Determinants of Female Students as a Factor of Choice About University Sport

The main characteristic of modern times, in which youth live, is the deficiency of physical activity throughout all social layers. Radical decrease in physical movement and activity is directly reflected in their health. Student population is not exempt from these trends.
Noting the relevant problems of further functioning and development of university sport in Serbia, where determination to create conditions necessary to meet students’ needs and interests in the realm of physical activity and improvement of health is drawing a special attention, the necessity to determine basic parameters for a proper organization and orientation of student sport was discovered. In that context, the emphasis is placed on the female student population which is associated with extremely low participation in physical and sports activities at the University, as well as in everyday life.
These tendencies are the reason to call the attention to the significance and need for recognition of optimum development strategy of university sport in the Republic of Serbia, and on the territory of AP (Autonomous Province) of Vojvodina, including individual universities as basic “micro units” where students’ sports activities can have their own peculiarity and characteristics.
The research sample consisted of 197 female students from the University of Educons in Sremska Kamenica. The scaling technique was used to research the attitudes and motives in relation to sport at the University.