The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of tenacity on perceived match performance ability among college Taekwondo competition players and provide basic data for improving players' Taekwondo performance. For those purposes, the stud...
The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of tenacity on perceived match performance ability among college Taekwondo competition players and provide basic data for improving players' Taekwondo performance. For those purposes, the study sampled total 304 male and female college Taekwondo players that competed in the 39th National College Taekwondo Championship for Individual Players, the 42nd National Taekwondo Competition for Groups for the Head of Association Title, the 47th National Taekwondo Competition for Groups for the Presidential Title, and the 35th National Taekwondo Competition for College Alliances of South Korea. Collected data were treated with reliability analysis, factor analysis, independent-sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, post hoc test, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The findings led to the following conclusions:
1) Analysis Results of Tenacity and Perceived Match Performance Ability according to Sociodemographic Characteristics
First, there were statistically significant differences in fighting spirit, one of the subfactors of tenacity, according to gender, which had no statistically significant impacts on competitive spirit and self-confidence, two subfactors of tenacity. Gender also had statistically significant impacts on successful match performance, psychological maturity, match performance maturity, and task performance ability of the subfactors of perceived match performance ability.
Second, there were statistically significant differences in self-confidence, one of the subfactors of tenacity, according to the grade, which had statistically significant effects on successful match performance, psychological maturity, and task performance ability of subfactors of perceived match performance ability.
Third, career as a player had no statistically significant influences on tenacity and perceived match performance ability.
2) The Effects of Tenacity on Perceived Match Performance Ability among College Taekwondo Players
First, tenacity had statistically significant effects on successful match performance, one of the subfactors of perceived match performance ability, with fighting spirit and competitive spirit, two subfactors of tenacity, having positive(+) effects on it.
Second, tenacity also had statistically significant effects on psychological maturity, one of the subfactors of perceived match performance ability, with fighting spirit, competitive spirit, and self-confidence, three subfactors of tenacity, having positive(+) effects on it.
Third, of the subfactors of tenacity, fighting spirit and self-confidence had positive(+) influences, whereas competitive spirit(β=-.034) had negative(-) ones.
Finally, tenacity turned out to have statistically significant impacts on task performance ability, one of the subfactors of perceived match performance ability, with fighting spirit, a subfactor of tenacity, having positive(+) impacts on it.