A Study on Social Support and Motivation of Athletic Cheerleading Players In University

• Main Authors: Yang, Hung-Te, 楊鴻德
• Other Authors: Liu, Lee-Yun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83mxs2

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 體育學系碩士在職專班 === 106 === The purposes of this study were to (a.) investigate the current state of social support, motivation of sport participation, and the participation of university cheerleaders; (b.) examine the differences in social support and motivation of sport participation when under different background variables; (c.) analyze the correlation between social support and motivation of sport participation of university cheerleaders. This is a questionnaire survey research. Three questionnaires were conducted to collect data, including (a.) the general information of university cheerleaders; (b.) the scale of social support; (c.) the scale of motivation of sport participation. Using purposive sampling, the subjects of the current study were 699 male and female cheerleaders who participated in “the Taiwan University Cheerleading Nationals Championship” in 2014. The response rate was 84.9%: 594 completed and validated questionnaires were returned. The collected data were examined and analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent sample t test, ANOVA, and Pearson Correlation. Our main findings show that: (a.) social support and motivation of sport participation were low correlated. (b.) in the survey of social support among university cheerleaders, “teammate support” ranked the highest, followed by “friend support” and “coach support”. (c.) in the survey of motivation of sport participation among university cheerleaders, “health and fitness” ranked the highest, followed by “the need for achievement”. (d.) social support and motivation of sport participation of university cheerleaders were positively correlated. Key words: university cheerleaders , social support, motivation of sport and participation