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- Title
Participation motivations and related elements of collegiate Martial arts athletes from Central China regional.
- Authors
ZENG, HOWARD Z.; YIWU YANG
- Abstract
The scientific research literature review showed that collegiate martial-arts athletes' (CMAAs) participation motivations and related elements such as their gender, disciplines, original motivations for them participating, and their health-related behaviors) were barely been studied. The current study employed the 'Self Determination Theory' and an Adapt Questionnaire of Collegiate Martial-arts Athletes' Participation Motivations and Related Elements conducted this research project. Participants were 197 CMAAs came from 16 universities' martial arts teams (wherein females = 113, males = 84); these participants represented their universities regularly attended Martial-arts competitions within the Central region collegiate martial arts league of China. This study examined the CMAAs' Participation-Motivations characteristics and the relationships among these motivations and the five related elements. Data collection was done by using the Adapt Questionnaire of Collegiate Martial-arts Athletes' Participation-Motivations and Related Elements. The main statistics techniques were 2x2x2x 2 x3x3 factorial MANOVA, Exploratory-factor analysis, and Multipleregression analysis. The primary findings are: 'Finance-Support', 'Disciplines', 'Years in College', and 'Athletic Grades' had significant effects on the CMAAs' participation-motivations, but 'Gender' and 'Origin motivations' did not. Those CMAAs supported by 'parents/myself' had higher participant motivations than those supported by the 'college/team'. Those CMAAs who possessed higher 'Athletic Grade' had higher participation-motivations than those possessed lower 'Athletic Grade'. The characteristics of those participation-motivations factors and the correlations among the motivation variables were identified and could be predicted. The current status of the participants' related elements was also obtained. Conclusions: using multiple statistics approaches and analyses, the characteristics of the CMAAs' participation motivations could be identified/confirmed; how those related elements impact their participation-motivations could be recognized and identified; the CMAAs' participationmotivations are possible to be predicted. Reasons for the findings are analyzed and discussed. Meaningful suggestions for the coaches, instructors, and managers who want to reform/reinforce their collegiate martial arts teams/programs were also provided.
- Subjects
MARTIAL arts; COLLEGE athletes; SPORTS participation; MOTIVATION (Psychology); AUTONOMY (Psychology); COLLEGE sports competitions; COLLEGE sports coaching; COLLEGE sports management
- Publication
Journal of Physical Education & Sport, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 3, p1567
- ISSN
2247-8051
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7752/jpes.2021.03199