The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of motivation of dance participation on physical self-efficacy and dance seeking behavior of middle school students. As the study objects, each 1 middle school was selected from 6 area and stud...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of motivation of dance participation on physical self-efficacy and dance seeking behavior of middle school students. As the study objects, each 1 middle school was selected from 6 area and students who participate in dance class more than once in a week were selected form them. With purposive sampling, 762 materials were used for final analysis among 800 materials except 38 materials which have more than 5 repetitional answer and insincere contents. Path analysis was operated for data processing with χ2-test, One-way ANOVA, t-test and multi regression analysis, and the results are shown below. First, school dance class types and participation motivation according to personal characteristics had a significant difference. Second, physical self-efficacy had a significant difference according to school dance class types and participation motivation. Third, dance seeking behaviors showed a significant difference according to school dance class types and participation motivation. Fourth, dance seeking behaviors showed a significant difference according to middle school students` physical self-efficacy. Fifth, motivation of dance participation of middle school has causality with physical self-efficacy and dance seeking behavior. On the basis of that result, to extend the base of dance population, after school dance class which has voluntary motivation should be increased more and more. And also, the methods to increase student`s physical self-efficacy with dance education should be sought.