This study aimed at analyzing tennis club members' experiences of being committed and self-esteems. In order to achieve such aim, the study conducted an analysis involving 300 participants in tennis activities in Gwangju and South Jeolla province to s...
This study aimed at analyzing tennis club members' experiences of being committed and self-esteems. In order to achieve such aim, the study conducted an analysis involving 300 participants in tennis activities in Gwangju and South Jeolla province to see the way they developed experience of being committed and self-esteem according to their degree of participation in tennis (frequency, hours, duration). The findings of the study were as follows.
First, the verification of differences between experiences of being committed according to background variables found that cognitive commitment and behavioral commitment did not show any difference according to gender. Cognitive commitment and behavioral commitment, however, displayed significant difference at the level of 0.001 and 0.01 respectively according to age. According to participation motivation, however, no difference was detected in both cognitive commitment and behavioral commitment.
Second, the verification of differences between self-esteems according to background variables found that no difference was detected in both positive self-esteem and negative self-esteem according to gender. While positive self-esteem showed no significant difference according to gender, negative self-esteem displayed significant difference at the level of 0.01. In addition, while no difference was detected in positive self-esteem according to participation motivation, significant difference was detected in negative self-esteem at the level of 0.05.
Third, the verification of differences between experiences of being committed according to the degree of participation found that significant differences were detected in both cognitive commitment and behavioral commitment at the level of 0.001. While cognitive commitment showed significant difference at the level of 0.05 according to participation duration, behavior commitment did not display any difference. On the other hand, according to participation hours, cognitive commitment and behavioral commitment displayed significant differences at the level of 0.01 and 0.001 respectively.
Fourth, the verification of differences between self-esteems according to the degree of participation found that no differences were detected in both positive self-esteem and negative self-esteem according to participation frequency and participation duration. According to participation hours, on the other hand, positive self-esteem did not show any significant difference, but negative self-esteem displayed significant difference at the level of 0.05.
Fifth, according to the result of the verification of cognitive commitment, participation frequency had a significant effect on cognitive commitment at the level of 0.001, but participation duration and hours had no effect on cognitive commitment. The verification of behavioral commitment, on the other hand, found that participation frequency and hours had significant impacts on behavioral commitment at the level of 0.001 and 0.01 respectively, but participation duration had little effect on behavioral commitment. According to the result of the verification of positive self-esteem, none of participation frequency, duration and hours had significant effect on positive self-esteem. In the meantime, the verification of negative self-esteem found that while participation time exerted a significant impact on negative self-esteem at the level of 0.05, participation frequency and duration had no effect on negative self-esteem.