Influence Of Sport Confidence On The Sport-coping Skills For College-student Athletes:Mediating Effect Of Sport Courage

Courage has been one of the important topics in the field of positive psychology recently.Sport courage means the natural and developing interaction and perception of the sport participants under the voluntary and dangerous situations.The sport courage not only affects the utilization of the athletes' sport-coping skills but also enhances their physical and psychological health.Sport courage has attracted wide attention from the researchers abroad.However,few researchers pay attention to sport courage in China.The researcher has chosen 222 college-student athletes as the respondents of predictive questionnaire.The project analysis and exploratory factor analysis are conducted to gain the formal questionnaire.1054 college-student athletes are chosen as the respondents of formal questionnaire.The correlation analysis and confirmatory factor analysis have been conducted to gain the Chinese version of the scale related to sport courage.The features related to the sport courage of college-student athletes,such as gender,grade,sport level,sport event,training year,whether the athlete is the only child and where the athlete is from,have been surveyed.The relationship between sport confidence,sport courage and sport-coping skills has been well analyzed so to as help those college-student athletes improve their sport courage and also provide preference for those educational workers when taking intervening measures and giving guidance.The research results are as follows:1.Based on the English version of the sport courage scale(SCS),the Chinese version of sport courage scale has been also revised.The revised scale includes four dimensions,namely determination&assertiveness,venturesome,mastery,self-sacrifice behavior.It consists of 21 items.According to the results of project analysis and reliability&validity test,this scale has excellent reliability and validity.2.The comparative difference of those college-student athletes in the gender,age,and training year and where the athlete is from has statistical significance.There is no statistical significance for the comparative difference in the sport level,sport event and whether the athlete is the only child.On the whole,those college-student athletes have the sport courage above the average level.In terms of gender,those male athletes have obviously outperformed their female counterparts for the three dimensions,namely determination&assertiveness,venturesome and self-sacrifice behavior,as well as the total average score of sport courage.In terms of grade,those freshmen and sophomoreshave obviously outperformed those junior students for the three dimensions,namely venturesome,mastery,self-sacrifice behavior,as well as the total average score of sport courage.In terms of training year,those students with 5 to 8 training years have obviously outperformed those students with 1 to 4 training years or more than 9 training years for the two dimensions,namely determination&assertiveness and venturesome,as well as the total average score of sport courage.In terms of the place where the athletes is from,those college-student athletes from urban areas have obviously outperformed those college-student athletes from rural areas for the dimension of mastery and total average score of sport courage.3.It is found that sport confidence and sport courage have a positive predictive effect on the sport-coping skills.Sport confidence can contribute to the improvement of sport-coping skills by enhancing the sport courage which is an internal cause.Sport courage can act as a mediating variable between sport confidence and sport-coping skills.Research conclusion:1.The revised Chinese version of sport courage scale has excellent reliability and validity,satisfying the relevant indexes for psychometrics.Hence,it can be used as a tool for gauging the sport courage of college-student athletes in China.2.On the whole,the sport courage of college-student athletes remains at a relatively high level.Male athletes have outperformed female counterparts for sport courage.Those freshmen and sophomores have also outperformed junior students in this regard.Those college-student athletes with 5 to 8 training years have obviously outperformed those with 1 to 4 training years or more than9 training years.The college-student athletes from urban areas have obviously outperformed those from rural areas.3.Sport courage can play the role of complete mediation during the process of sport confidence affecting sport-coping skills.