The purpose of the present study is to examine The Effect of Achievement-Goal Orientation on Exercise Flow & Adherence Intention of Elementary School Taekwondo Trainees. The subjects of research were the 4th, 5th and 6th graders who have been practic...
The purpose of the present study is to examine The Effect of Achievement-Goal Orientation on Exercise Flow & Adherence Intention of Elementary School Taekwondo Trainees. The subjects of research were the 4th, 5th and 6th graders who have been practicing taekwondo for the period of the last six months within Seoul area. Out of 350 returned questionnaires, 339 are used for the final analysis.
As the tools of research, the demographical characteristics of taekwondo students, their duration of training, Achievement-Goal Orientation on Exercise Flow & Adherence Intention dealt with.
As a method of survey, questionaries were distributed to the 4th grade students and up to be filled in the self-registered questionnaire survey method. The purpose and method of the research was fully explained to the subjects of the research. After going through the first error test of the returned questionnaires, only valid samples were statistically processed. For the statistical analyses, Spss for Windows 18.01 was made use of for exploratory factor analysis, t-test, One-way ANOVA, correlation analysis and multi-regression analysis.
The findings of the present research are as follows:
First, in accordance with the age of the trainees, there shows no significance of the difference in achievement-goal orientation, exercise flow, and exercise adherence intention; however, with the grade, there is an indication of the significant differences in the 'homework-oriented' variable of achievement-goal orientation and the 'cognition flow' variable of exercise flow; also does in adherence intent.
Second, in accordance with the level of pum/dan, there indicates the significance of the difference in the 'homework-oriented' and 'self-oriented' variables of achievement-goal orientation, the 'cognition flow' variable of exercise flow, and exercise adherence intent. With the duration of training, the 'homework-oriented' and 'self-oriented' variables of achievement-goal orientation demonstrate some significant differences; however there is no indication of significant differences in both exercise flow and exercise adherence intent.
Third, there is a significant correlation between the 'homework-oriented' and 'self-oriented' variables of achievement-goal and the 'cognition-flow' and 'action-flow' variables of exercise flow; also does with exercise adherence intent. In addition, the 'cognition-flow' and 'action-flow' variables of exercise flow shows a significant correlation with exercise adherence intent.
Fourth, the 'homework-oriented' variable of achievement-goal orientation results in a significant effect on the 'cognition-flow' and 'action-flow' variables of exercise flow and exercise adherence intent; however, the 'self-oriented' variable has no significant effect.
Finally, the 'cognition-flow' variable of exercise flow demonstrates a significant effect on exercise adherence intent.
In consequence, only the 'homework-oriented' variable of achievement-goal orientation of elementary school taekwondo trainees has a significant effect on exercise flow and exercise adherence intent while the 'cognition-flow' variable of exercise flow demonstrates a significant effect on exercise adherence effect.