Descriptive Study on Demographic Factors and Performance Strategies among Athletes
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 14
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to investigate the differences between demographic factors and performance strategies among athletes. The demographic factors such as gender, years of study, and years of involvement in sports play an important role in the use of performance strategies in determining their performance strategies in sports. The instrument used for this research was the Test of Performance Strategies (TOPS) to measure the performance strategies. The finding has shown that there were significant differences between the demographic factors and the performance strategies. The demographic variables consist of age, gender, year of study, and years of involvement in sports. The performance strategies include the constructs (goal setting, relaxation, activation, imagery, self-talk, attentional control, emotional control, and automaticity). In general, the result showed that the differences between the demographic factors such as; gender at t (21) = 13.75; p < .05; years of study at t (21) = 9.46; p < .05 and years of involvement at t (20) = 11.37; p < .05 and the performance strategies were significant. In addition, there were significant differences between the demographic factors (age, gender, year of study, and years of involvement in sports) and all sub factors in the performance strategies such as goal setting, relaxation, activation, imagery, self-talk, attentional control, emotional control, and automaticity. Based on the findings, it can be inferred that to enhance the athletes’ ability and competency in sports, they have to be trained in various styles/methods according to their age, gender, years of study, and years of involvement.
Authors and Affiliations
N. M. Ghazali, N. Fauzan, A. Anuar, E. Aden
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP600238
- DOI 10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i14/5037
- Views 75
- Downloads 0
Challenges and Technologies for Affordable Housing System
Housing affordability and provision of an adequate shelter are the challenges faced by the government in the developing countries. When the phenomenal rise in population, it resulted in shortage of dwelling units of hous...
Influence of Social Environment on Student’s Behaviour
The interest in the study of social environment stems from a major belief that ‘Social environment consists of the sum total of a society's beliefs, customs, practices and behaviors.’ However, researcher and reformer fro...
Evaluating Salesman’s Personality Attributes in B2B Branding Context: The Case of Mobile-Communication Company of Iran
This study aims to review B2B branding literature and investigate how to promote brand equity by salesman’s personality attributes in B2B domain. By providing this knowledge, salesman’s personality attributes for promoti...
Managerial Level Differences on Conflict Handling Styles of Managers in Thai Listed Firms
This study aimed to compare the differences of managerial levels on preference for conflict handling styles of managers in Thai listed firms. Data were collected from 76 managers who worked at the companies listed in Sto...
Proposed Methodology using Design Development Research (DDR) Improving Traceability Model with Test Effort Estimation
Software maintenance is an important activity in software development lifecycle. Any changes during the maintenance phase have impact on cost and time. Thus, to minimize cost and time, a test effort estimation is crucial...