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Body Appreciation, Gender, Motivation, And Competitive Success In Competition Climbing, Marissa Frost May 2022

Body Appreciation, Gender, Motivation, And Competitive Success In Competition Climbing, Marissa Frost

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The focus of this study was to examine the relation between the constructs of body appreciation, gender, motivation, and competitive success in competition climbers. To gather data for this study, a Qualtrics survey was created and distributed amongst the competition climbing community through USA Climbing’s Facebook page and member email list. Data was then collected from competition climbers between the ages of thirteen and sixty over 45 days in the winter of 2017. A total of 236 competition climbers participated in the survey and 202 of those responses were used in this study. Body appreciation in this study was analyzed …