The purpose of the present study was to quantitatively determine the influences of factors related to dancesports participation, stress and social support under the assumption that complex and various social psychological factors operate in dancesport...
The purpose of the present study was to quantitatively determine the influences of factors related to dancesports participation, stress and social support under the assumption that complex and various social psychological factors operate in dancesports socialization process.
Personal attributes, significant others' interest and encouragement, and self-determination were established as background variables, dancesports participation as a independent variable, stress and social support as a dependent variable.
The sample was collected from 588 of dancesports participants and 511 of dancesports non-participants living in Seoul city and Kyunggi province using a purposive sampling method.
Data were collected through the questionnaire based on the previous studies using Self-determination (Pelletier, Tuson, & Haddad, 1997), Stress (Kang, Shin-Wook) and Social Support (Cohen & Hoberman, 1983) was measured by the scale designed from 10 specialists in dancesports, statistics, and sports sociology. The questionnaire was used after testing validity and reliability through pilot study.
On the basis of the results analysed, the conclusions were drawn as follows;
1.Job had negative effect on participation frequency of dancesports, and gender and job also had negative effect on participation duration of dancesports, but there are not effective variables on participation intensity of dance sports. Brothers' interest and encouragement had positive effect on participation frequency of dancesports, and brothers' interest and encouragement also had negative effect on participation intensity of dancesports, but there are not effective variables on participation
duration of dance sports. Identification motivation had negative effect on participation duration of dancesports, and extrinsic motivation had positive effect on participation intensity of dancesports, but there are not effective variables on participation frequency of dance sports.
2.Gender and age have significant effects on stress, and the experience of participation in dancesports were found to have significant effects on stress, but participation intensity of dancesports had negative effect on stress.
3.Gender, job, education, and income have significant effects on social support, and the experience of participation in dancesports were found to have significant effects on social support, but participation degree (frequency, duration, intensity) of dancesports was not found to have significant effects on social support.
In conclusion, the background variables such as gender, job, father and brother's interest and encouragement, and identification and extrinsic motivation influences on participation degree of dancesports.