The purpose of this study was to investigate high school Ju Do players' achievement goal orientation and mental health according to their game performance and gender, and then to offer basic data for game performance improvement and scientific player ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate high school Ju Do players' achievement goal orientation and mental health according to their game performance and gender, and then to offer basic data for game performance improvement and scientific player management. Subjects were randomly sampled 65 male players and 58 female players. They were divided into two groups. First was the group of elite players who have ranked at the third at least in national scale athletic matches from 2000 to 2002. Secondly, the rest of the subjects belonged to the group of common players. Two-way ANOVA and t-test were used to analyze the differences between the two groups. We obtained the following results.
1) In the case of the ego-orientational goal achievement, there was no considerable difference between the male players and the female players of JuDo.
2) In the case of the task-orientational goal achievement, the male players had higher propensity than the female players did.
3) But there was no difference between genders, between players of elite group and players of common group.
4) The analysis of players' gender showed that female players were significantly more responsive to the symptoms of somatic, interpersonal sensitivity, fear, anxiety, and so on than male players were.
5) Among male players, the elite group was much more responsive to the symptoms of compulsive, hostility, paranoia, etc than the common group was.
6) Among female players of elite group and common group, their mental health was no influenced by JuDo results.