The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the achievement goal orientation of amateur marathoners on their participation satisfaction and exercise adherence in an effort to provide some information on those engaging in marathon as a sp...
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the achievement goal orientation of amateur marathoners on their participation satisfaction and exercise adherence in an effort to provide some information on those engaging in marathon as a sport for all and to expedite the development of sports for all. The subjects in this study were 300 amateur marathoners who were selected by convenience sampling from among the participants in nationwide marathon competitions that were respectively held in North Chungcheong Province and Incheon in 2014. After a survey was conducted, the answer sheets from 261 respondents were analyzed except 39 ones that were incomplete or included multiple replies.
The instrument used in this study was questionnaire that consisted of five items, which were two about demographic characteristics of gender and age and three about the period, frequency and time of participation. As for achievement goal orientation, Kim Byeong-joon(2001)'s Sport Achievement Goal Orientation Questionnaire that was an adapted version of Duda & Nicholls(1992)'s Task and Ego-Orientation in Sport Questionnaire(TEOSQ) was modified to be suitable for marathon. Concerning participation satisfaction, Kim Young-jae(2004)'s Korean Leisure Satisfaction Scale(KLSS) that was based on Beard and Ragheb(1980)'s Leisure Satisfaction Scale(LSS) was modified to suit marathon. Regarding exercise adherence, Choi Seong-hoon(2005)'s Korean Exercise Adherence Scale for Sports for All and Leisure Sports was utilized.
As for data analysis, a statistical package SPSS WIN 21.0 was employed to analyze the collected data. A frequency analysis was made to find out the demographic characteristics of the respondents, and t-test and one-way ANOVA were used to see whether there would be any differences in achievement goal orientation, participation satisfaction and exercise adherence according to their gender, age, period of participation, frequency of participation and time of participation. To determine the mutual influence of achievement goal orientation, participation satisfaction and exercise adherence, simple regression analysis and multiple regression analysis were made. The level of statistical significance was all set at .05. The findings of the study were as follows:
First, there were no significant differences among the amateur marathoners in achievement goal orientation according to gender, age, period of joining a marathon club and club activities. But significant differences were found according to time of exercise in overall achievement goal orientation and ego-orientation, which was a subfactor of achievement goal orientation.
There were no significant differences among the amateur marathoners in participation satisfaction according to gender and age, but their period of joining a marathon club made significant differences to emotional satisfaction, physical satisfaction and social satisfaction. Significant differences were found according to club activities in emotional satisfaction, social satisfaction and educational satisfaction, and their emotional satisfaction varied with time of exercise.
In regard to exercise adherence, there were significant differences according to gender in motor skills, and significant differences were found in whom they exercised with and exercise habits according to age. There were significant differences according to the period of joining a marathon club in whom they exercised with, exercise habits, motor skills, exercise environments and overall exercise adherence. Significant differences were found according to club activities in whom they worked out with and exercise habits, and there were significant differences in whom they worked out with, exercise habits and motor skills according to time of exercise.
Second, concerning the influence of the achievement goal orientation of the amateur marathoners on participation satisfaction, task orientation had a significant impact on participation satisfaction.
Third, regarding the impact of the achievement goal orientation of the amateur marathoners on exercise adherence, task orientation exerted a significant influence on exercise adherence.