| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北師範學院 === 體育學系碩士班 === 92 === Based on achievement goal theory (Dweck & Leggett, 1988; Nicholls, 1984, 1989) and self-presentation concern (Leary, 1992, 1995), the purpose of this study was to examine the predictive power of three dimensions of dispositional goal orientation and perceived ability on exercise anxiety (i.e. social physique anxiety, movement evaluation discomfort and movement presentation comfort) and enjoyment; the interaction of dispositional goal orientations and perceived ability in predicting exercise anxiety and enjoyment. Three hundred and fifty-nine members (males=153; females=206) of well-known health club participated the study. The mean age of participants was 34.15 (SD=10.04) years old. All the participants were asked to complete a series of paper-and-pencil questionnaire measuring dispositional goal orientations in exercise, perceived ability, social physique anxiety, movement presentation anxiety (i.e. movement evaluation discomfort and movement presentation comfort) and enjoyment. A series of t test, simple correlation analyses, hierarchical multiple-regression analyses and structural equation modeling (SEM) were conducted and the major findings were as follows:
1. Ego orientation and perceived ability were the predictors of social physique anxiety for both males and females, which the former predictor emerged stronger prediction on social physique anxiety for females and the later emerged stronger prediction on social physique anxiety for males.
2. Only perceived ability can predict both dimensions of movement presentation anxiety for both males and females.
3. For females, there were significant interactions of ego orientation with perceived ability in predicting social physique anxiety and social orientation with perceived ability in predicting movement presentation anxiety.
4. Task orientation and perceived ability were predictors of enjoyment for both males and females, which the former predictor emerged stronger prediction on enjoyment for males and the later emerged stronger prediction on enjoyment for females.
5. Only movement presentation comfort in exercise anxiety was the predictor of enjoyment for both males and females.
6. The results of SEM indicated that, goal orientations and perceived ability were predictors of exercise anxiety (i.e. social physique anxiety and movement evaluation discomfort) and enjoyment for both males and females, which goal orientations showed the higher predictive utility on enjoyment and perceived ability showed the higher predictive utility on exercise anxiety. Specifically, members who displayed higher level of goal orientations and perceived ability experienced anxiety less and enjoyed the exercise more.
7. The results of SEM also emerged that goal orientations and perceived ability can not affect enjoyment indirectly through exercise anxiety. Specifically, members who felt anxious about their physique or movement may not necessarily enjoy less during exercising.
Finally, further results were discussed based on the theoretical framework, and suggestions were made for practical application and future research directions.
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