This purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of tennis players' competitive orientation and competitive anxiety on ability attribution and effort attribution. For this purpose, this study was conducted for 110 male high school tennis players a...
This purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of tennis players' competitive orientation and competitive anxiety on ability attribution and effort attribution. For this purpose, this study was conducted for 110 male high school tennis players and 107 female players in the specific task of tennis and the actual situation, based on Burton'(1992) competitive goal-setting, Vealy's sports confidence and Weiner's attribution theory. And it attempted to identify the effect of tennis players' competitive orientation and competitive anxiety on the forms of attribution.
Accordingly,. this study set performance orientation and outcome orientation of competitive orientation, and cognitive state anxiety, physical state anxiety and confidence of competitive anxiety as independent variables. And it set as the dependent variables the ability and effort especially related to the sport context among four dimensions of attribution such as ability, effort, task and exercise, by dividing them into the time of success and failure. An attempt was made to conduct regression analysis. As a result the following result was obtained:
First, an attempt was made to analyze the effect of performance orientation, outcome orientation, cognitive state anxiety, physical state anxiety and confidence on ability success attribution. As a consequence, it was found that they did not have a significant effect on ability success attribution in case of male players as shown in Table 10. But it was found that confidence had a significant effect on ability success attribution in case of female players(t=2.860, p=.005).
Second, an attempt was made to analyze the effect of performance orientation, outcome orientation, cognitive state anxiety, physical state anxiety and confidence on effort success attribution. As a consequence, it was found that cognitive state anxiety had a negative effect on effort success attribution in case of male players as shown in Table 11(t=-2.543, p=.012), but physical state anxiety had a positive effect on effort success anxiety. But it was found that outcome orientation and confidence had a significant effect on efforts success attribution at the time of success in case of female players.
Third, an attempt was made to analyze the effect of performance orientation, outcome orientation, cognitive state anxiety, physical state anxiety and confidence on ability failure attribution. As a consequence, it was found that in both male and female players performance orientation had a negative effect on ability failure attribution. But it was found that outcome attribution had a positive effect on ability failure attribution only in case of female players.
Fourth, an attempt was made to conduct the effect of performance orientation, outcome orientation, cognitive