This study aims to find out whether there are differences in groups in self-management of Taekwondo athletes, and identify the relationship among self-management, flow to exercise, and flow to exercise. According to it, this study purposes to make Ta...
This study aims to find out whether there are differences in groups in self-management of Taekwondo athletes, and identify the relationship among self-management, flow to exercise, and flow to exercise. According to it, this study purposes to make Taekwondo athletes aware importance of self-management, and to provide the practical measures and strategy for self-management.
The subjects of this study were the high school and college students that attended 3 competences according to the schedule of Korea Taekwondo Association. We used the convenience sampling method and total 281 questionnaires for the survey, and analyzed it. Gender, belongs, career as an athlete, department, and types of the athletes were introduced as the background variables, self-management as the independent variables, flow to exercise as the intervening variables, satisfaction as the dependent variables. We used the statistic program, SPSS 20.0 to perform the frequency analysis, the searching factor analysis, the reliability analysis, the independent t-test, the one way Anova, the correlation analysis, and the multiple regression analysis. Accordingly, we obtained the results as follows:
First, there were statistically significant differences between the genders in personal relationship management and mind management, when we examined the differences of self-management as the specific variables to demographics. Personal relationship management, mind management, and training management showed the significant differences in statistics according to the careers of the athletes. And also there were statistically significant differences in personal relationship, mind management, and exercise management, according to the departments. According to the types of the athletes, there were statistically differences in mind management and exercise management.
In the differences of exercise satisfaction according to the specific variables in demographics, perception flow showed the statistically significant differences between genders, and according to exercise career it showed statistically significant differences, and according to the departments of the athletes there were perception flow the statistically significant differences, and according to the types of the athletes, there were the statistically significant differences in action flow.
In the differences of exercising satisfaction according to the specific variables in demographics, social acceptance satisfaction and external environment satisfaction showed statistically significant differences according to their belongings. In satisfaction of the athletes and their social acceptance satisfaction according to their careers, there were the statistically significant differences. According to the departments, satisfaction of the athletes, social acceptance satisfaction, and external environment satisfaction, all showed statistically significant differences.
Second, self-management affects significantly perception flow and action flow that are the sub-factors under exercise flow. Personal relationship management, mind management, and training management influence significantly on action flow. Self-management affects positively(+) to exercise flow.
Third, self-management influences significantly on satisfaction of the athletes, social acceptance satisfaction, external environment satisfaction, and training management that are the sub-factors under exercise satisfaction. Particularly, personal relationship management, mind management, body management, and training management influence on satisfaction of the athletes. Personal relationship management, mind management and training management influence social acceptance satisfaction. Body management influences on external environment satisfaction. Self-management influences positively(+) on exercise satisfaction.
Fourth, exercise flow influences significantly on the athletes' satisfaction, social acceptance satisfaction, external satisfaction that are the sub-factors under the exercise satisfaction. Perception flow influences significantly on the athletes' satisfaction. Perception flow and action flow influence significantly on social acceptance satisfaction. Perception flow significantly influences on external environment satisfaction. Exercise flow influences in positive way on the athletes' satisfaction and social acceptance satisfaction, but in negative way on external environment satisfaction.