The Relationship Of Goal Orientation, Athletics' Coachability, And Sources Of Sport-Confidence Among Collegial Basketball Union Players In Taiwan

The psychology of sportsmen is internal,and the subtle differences lie in it is hard to detect.But it can affect a player's performance greatly,hence,Study on psychology is always an important question.Among all the fators in sportsmen's psychology,confidence played a key role,some psychologist even make it a direct-affect-performance factor.Some studies showed significant positive correlation between confidence and performance in sports,and the explained variation of confidence on performance in sports can reach to 44%.In the model of confidence in sports,it is thought that confidence comes from league culture and players' Character,which will further affect their confidence,therefor affect their cognition,conduct and sentiment,which will feedback some information.Thus the feedback will re-affect players' confidence and thus forms a circle.Moreover,players will have different goal-orientation when they are in various sports situation.Different goal-orientations can make different reaction to their performances,like confidence,satisfaction,internal motivation and anxiety.This will affect their later behaviors.Players have two traits in goal-orientation,one is work orientation,the other self-orientation.These two are independent to each other,that is to say,players can simultaniously have high work-orientation,self-orientation and low work-orientation, self-orientation,and can be one high and the other be low.There is a significant negative correlation between confident trait self-orientation trait,in other words,when players show self-orientation trait,the confident trait will be lower.But the 'performance show',which is from confidence in sports,has a positive correlation with self-orientation.When players are in complicated competitive situation,their 'on court' performance is greatly connected with their psychology-skill trait.Studies showed there are 7 psychological skills,which players possessed when facing competitive court.They are as follows:deal with adversity,achieve peak under pressure,psychological readiness for goal-setting, concentration,anxiety releasing,confidence and achievement motivation,training capability. players training capability includes intensity of hard-working,feedback to coach,open learning,trust and respectation to coach,help from teammates and proccessing the criticals. This six individual traits are weaved together by players' personality,self-working-orientation, competition orientation and situation.According to this,of course,it has an important relation with players' skills,if a player's training ability is low,we can predict his or her skill development will be limited.When he or she is facing hard competition,his confidece will naturally down and cause a less excellent perforemance.Hence,this study investigated mainly the players from college basketball league of Taiwan.The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Goal Orientation,Athletics' Coachability and Source of Sport-Confidence among collegiate basketball players.Three hundred and eighty-three basketball players(male=193, female=190) were recruited as participants in 2006 academic year.Their average ages were 21.16 years old.Participants were asked to complete the "Goal Orientation,Athletics' Coachability,and Sources of Sport-Confidence Questionnaire".The results of this study were as followed:1.There were significant differences in satisfaction of different players' background among Goal Orientation,Athletics' Coachability,and Sources of Sport-Confidence.2.There were Significant differences in satisfaction of different task and ego orientation between Athletics' Coachability,and Sources of Sport-Confidence.3.There were positive correlation among Goal Orientation,Athletics' Coachability, and Sources of Sport-Confidence.4.Players' Goal Orientation and Athletics' Coachability were highly positive related to the "skill mastery" factor.