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The purpose of this study is to analyze structural relations among the coach’s motivating styles, positive thinking, sport confidence, and sport continuance in an adolescent sport team and also the mediating effects of positive thinking and sport confidence on relations between the coach’s motivating styles and sport continuance. For this purpose, the investigator applied purposeful sampling to male and female athletes at physical education or general middle and high schools around the nation and used total 321 questionnaires of the final valid sampled in analysis. Collected data was tested for fitness for the entire model with SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0. The hypotheses were also tested. The findings were as follows: first, support for autonomy, one of the coach’s motivating styles, had significant effects on the positive thinking and sport confidence of adolescent athletes. Controlling coaching behavior had negative(-) effects on their positive thinking and no significant effects on their sport confidence; second, the positive thinking of adolescent athletes had positive(+) impacts on their sport confidence and continuance; third, their sport confidence had significant influences on their sport continuance; and finally, their positive thinking and sport confidence played mediating roles in relations between the coach’s motivating styles(support for autonomy) and sport continuance. In short, field sport instructors need to take much interest and make a lot of effort to create an autonomous training environment before having contemplation over such negative outcomes as athletes’ quitting, stress, exhaustion, and depression. |
