This study identifies how the resilience of professional golfers affects their self-management and perceived performance. Data of 249 professional golfers based in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province was used during the actual analysis. The data was processed...
This study identifies how the resilience of professional golfers affects their self-management and perceived performance. Data of 249 professional golfers based in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province was used during the actual analysis. The data was processed using frequency analysis, t-test, and one-way ANOVA. Scheffé test was selected as an ad hoc test. Correlation analysis, exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis were also carried out. Pursuant to these research methods and procedures, the data analysis results came out as follows.
First, a partially significant difference was presented in the level of resilience, self-management and perceived performance depending on golfers’ personal characteristics.
Tests were done first to figure out how individual characteristics would affect the resilience. Controllability and sociability, the two resilience factors, showed a statistically significant difference depending on their individual characteristics such as gender. Age does not have an influence on those three factors, positivity, sociability and controllability all. There was a meaningful difference in controllability depending on winning experience. A career as a golfer statistically influences on positivity only.
Tests results how individual characteristics affect self-management were demonstrated as under. By gender, a significant difference was not shown in the sub-factors of self-management including body management, interpersonal management, training management and mental management. As for age, there was a statistically significant relation to training management. Depending on winning experience, only training management showed a meaningful difference. A career as a golfer was related to mental management only.
And tests were conducted to confirm the difference in the perceived performance. Between female and male, there was no significant difference in the performance. As for age, all the age groups from teenagers to 50’s did not show any statistical difference. Depending on winning experience, the meaningful difference was presented. For a career as a golfer, the whole groups from one year through fifteen years or more did not show a significant difference.
Secondly, the researcher assessed the effects of resilience on self-management. Controllability, a sub-factor of resilience, was positively related to all the factors of self-management including body management, interpersonal management, training management and mental management. It has been demonstrated that positivity has an affirmative influence on the sub-factors of self-management such as body management, interpersonal management and mental management. Sociability showed a positive relation to interpersonal management.
Then, the influence of self-management on the perceived performance was analyzed. Sub-factors of self-management such as interpersonal management, training management and mental management were proved to be positively related to the performance. Body management, however, was not verified in the statistically significant level.
Lastly, the effects of resilience on the perceived performance were analyzed. Positivity, a resilience sub-factor, showed an affirmative influence on the perceived performance.