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Abstract
The existence of motivation in sports has generated the creation of different measurement instruments to see the impact it has on the practice of various sports. In this study, the Chilean version of the Sports Motivation Scale (SMS-2ch) was used in participants of five female and male university soccer teams in the region of Valparaiso (n=171) with the objective of analyzing the perception of athletes on sports motivation according to gender. The participants were selected by non-probabilistic and intentional sampling, among the university athletes belonging to the men's and women's soccer teams that participate in the National University Sports Federation Coastal Zone Championship. The results obtained show that there are statistically significant differences between men and women in two of the six dimensions that make up the scale, with women showing a tendency to feel better about themselves when they play their sport by comparing scores with their male peers. The importance of this study focuses on the successful application of the instrument and future work at the psychological level in Chilean university sports teams, where motivation is a central element, present in the practice of their sport.