Participate motivation and social support in different life stage volleyball players

• Main Authors: Pao-Zus Chiu, 邱保斯
• Other Authors: Hsien- Che Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47054510213045117990

碩士 === 康寧大學 === 休閒管理研究所 === 102 === The purpose of this study was to investigate participate motivation and expect social support in different life stages volleyball player. The study identified the players into four different life stages by junior high school group, high school group, college group and graduate group. The study followed the order of different life stage groups, gender and sections, and collected 742 samples from 910 players in 5 major national volleyball championship and games by self-made questionnaire. After employing several statistic techniques, such as descriptive statistics, factor analysis, one-way anova and conclude as following results:First, "self-actualization" was the highest score and "higher achievement demand" and "psychological needs" were the other two highest participate motivation factors in different life stage volleyball player. Second, "material support" was the first expect social support factor and "online support" was the following important factor in different life stage volleyball player. This result illustrated that the power of online-communities has become more important especially to young players. Third, the study believed that the players who could maintain their performance or enhance their time in stage by reinforcement participate motivation. Fourth, the study indicated that social support has positive functions, such as makes people feel sure, care, respect and encourage, and also helping the player to reinforce their participate motivation. Fifth, the study showed that participate motivation could be positively influenced by expected social support factors, by in contract of lower exercise participation and less social support demand.