| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 體育學系 === 106 === Research on athletic career development has received wide attention. One of the most important topic is the relationship between athletic identity and career development. However, a raising issue is the inconsistent findings between athletic identity and career development were revealed in literature. This study aimed to examine the relationship between athletic identity and career development based on Holistic Athletic Career Model. In addition, the current study further proposed boundary management preferences as a boundary condition. The current study conducted three studies to examine our hypothesis. The aims of Study 1 are (a) to examine the relationship between athletic identity and career development; (b) to investigate the moderating role of boundary management preferences between athletic identity and career development. The aim of Study 2 was to examine whether the effect of athletic identity on career development would depend on role boundary. Survey research techniques were used in the Study 1. Study 2 adopt experiment research. Study 1 (N = 197) recruited athletes from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and Study 2 (N = 100) recruited Taiwanese athletes. The results found that athletic identity was positively related to career development indicators (proactive career behaviors and future work self) across American and Taiwanese student-athletes (Study 1 and 2). Study 1 further identified that boundary management preferences would moderate the relationship between athletic identity and career development. Study 2 found that group has significant difference in manipulation check, career development indicator (Time 2) and the difference score of career development indicators (Time 2 – Time 1). Besides, Study 2 revealed that athletic identity and group have interactive effects on the difference score of career development indicators. In summary, the findings of the current study supported research hypothesis I,Ⅱ, but partially supported hypothesis Ⅲ. Therefore, further theoretical and practical implications are also discussed and provided at the end of this paper.
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