The influence of trait mental toughness for sport and pre-competition state anxiety on the performance of taekwondo athletes

• Main Authors: Rui-Yu Lin, 林瑞瑜
• Other Authors: Ching-Ho Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50214031355786207254

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 運動教練研究所 === 95 === This research investigates how the performance of taekwondo athletes is related to their trait mental toughness and pre-competition state anxiety. It also examines if predictions of the athletes’ performance can be made based on these two factors. The research objects were 67 athletes on the 2008 Olympic training team and those who represented the national team in the tryout of the World Taekwondo Championships (41 males and 26 females: age 19.97±1.66 years old; height 170.62±6.52 cm; weight 63.64±10.14 kg). One month before the competition, the objects took the test of “trait mental toughness inventory for sport” and 30 minutes before the game their “pre-competition state anxiety” was measured. The data were then processed with SPSS FOR WINDOWS 10.0 to make Pearson product-moment correlation and regression analyses. With the significance level α set at .05, the following result was yielded: (1) among the “trait mental toughness” and “pre-competition state anxiety” inventories, only “positive effort” and “confidence” reached the significance level. (2) “trait mental toughness for sport” and “pre-competition state anxiety” inventories cannot effectively predict the performance of the taekwondo athletes because the correlation between the two inventories and the athletes’ performance did not reach the significance level. Therefore, the conclusion can be made that the performance of the national level-A taekwondo athletes is not apparently related to their trait mental toughness for sport and pre-competition state anxiety. These two factors cannot help effectively predict the rates of winning.