| The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among Taiwan athletes'sport motivation, sport involvement, sport benefit, and athletes'satisfaction, and to construct a cause-and-effect module of athletes'participation in order to improve athletes'training and performance and to develop Taiwan competitive sport. The samples were Taiwan college athletes, who were given questionnaires of sport motivation, sport involvement, and sport satisfaction. A total of 405 questionnaires was deployed, and 382 of them were returned effective (94.43%). The data were analyzed by independent, two-way MANOVA, construction, and Logistic Linear Regression. Results indicated that sport motivation makes athletes feel more satisfied, and sport involvement makes competitive sport more excited. First, sport motivation, sport involvement, sport benefit, and athletes' satisfaction had higher efficiency, and it could be used of examining athlete'behavior. Second, there were significant difference among gender, performance, sport motivation, sport involvement, and sport satisfaction. The national level athletes'extrinsic and A-motivation became less. Other levels athletes'needed to strengthen. Besides, athletes in different levels needed to improve attraction, centrality, and intrinsic motivation. Female athletes and low performance athletes needed to increase sport efficiency. Female athletes needed to improve personal training goal, skill satisfaction, and low performance athletes needed to improve personal performance, coaches'concerning, and team relationship; The Satisfaction toward personal performance needed to improve for the female athletes of the levels of "International Game" and "National Sports Game. "Third, there were significant difference among athletes'satisfaction, involvement, and sport effectiveness. The participation module of Taiwan athletes fits the module of four factors' reciprocation of sport satisfaction, sport involvement, sport effiency, and sport satisfaction. Through sport involvement and motivation, athletes'satisfaction could be influenced. Forth, sport involvement can effectively improve athletes'performance. Fifth, it was suggested that further researches on more different sport. This study suggested that coach should enhance sport motivation so as to increase sport involvement, sport effectiveness and sport satisfaction. Sixth, this study suggested to do further study by experiment research, interview, and so on. With holding famous athletes'seminars, media broadcasting, athletes can receive more sport effectiveness. Besides, developing well-designed policies for athletes, seeking sponsorship from industries, and exploring government's support would be helpful to improve athletes'participation.
|
PDF Full Text Request