Abstract

This study focuses on the influence of the surfer’s relationships of sport participants on psychological need satisfaction, goal content to learn and the future physical activity intention of performing future physical activity. A sample of 301 surfer’s reported their perception of peer’s relatedness support, psychological needs, goal content to learn, and future physical activity intention experiences in sport setting. Reliability, confirmatory factor, regression, and path analysis were analyzed to the collected data using SPSS and AMOS. The results showed that peer’s relatedness support had an impact on psychological basic need, goal content to learn and the intention of participation in future physical activity. More specifically, peer relatedness support had meaningful direct relation with psychological need satisfaction and future physical activity intention than autonomy support. Intrinsic goal also was directly related with future physical activity intention than extrinsic goal. In conclusion, peer’s relatedness support plays important role in terms of enhancing surfer’s psychological need satisfaction, intrinsic goal, and future physical activity intention.

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