The purpose of this study was to examine whether high school players' self-management strategy was different according to his or her gender, school year, sporting event and athletic performance. The subjects were 361 players(male 228, female 133) sele...
The purpose of this study was to examine whether high school players' self-management strategy was different according to his or her gender, school year, sporting event and athletic performance. The subjects were 361 players(male 228, female 133) selected by stratified random sampling from high schools in Jeollanamdo province. An 18-item questionnaires were used in this study, which was Heo Jeong-hun(2001)'s modified version of 25-item self- management questionnaires. This questionnaires were composed of 6 interpersonal relation items, 5 training items, 3 mental care items, 2 physical care items and 2 injury-handling items.
One-way ANOVA and t-test were done and Scheffe' test was also used for post hoc comparisons. The level of significance was set at p<0.05. The Statistical Package for Social sciences(Version 10.0 for windows) was used for all statistical analyses.
The findings of this study were as follows;
1. The gender of the players made no significant difference to their interpersonal relations, training, physical care and injury management. The male players significantly outperformed the girls only in the mental care area(t=3.131, p<.01).
2. The school year made no significant difference to their mental care, physical care and injury management, but they significantly differed from one another in interpersonal strategy and training strategy according to school year. The players in their second year significantly excelled those in their first year in the human-relations management(p<.01) and training(p<.05).
3. Their sporting event yielded no significant difference to physical care and injury management. But their self-management strategies were significantly different according to sporting event in the human relations(p<.001), training(p<.01) and mental care(p<.01) areas. The players who belonged to group and competitive events were better in the interpersonal relations and mental care than those who belonged to individual events.
4. Their athletic performance didn't produce any significant difference to physical care or injury management. But the human relations(p<.05), training(p<.01) and mental care(p<.001) were significantly different according to athletic performance, respectively. The prize-winning players in national competitions were better in interpersonal relations than those who had never participated in any national contests. And the former group was better in training management and mental care than the latter group or those who had never won any prize in national competitions.