Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the structural causal relationship among covert narcissism, competitive anxiety and sports aggression of elementary students, and to examine the effect of competitive anxiety on mediating effects between covert narcissism and sports aggression. The participants consisted of 439 5th and 6th grade students from eight elementary schools located in D city(male:219, female:220). Data were collected using survey. The data was analyzed by using SPSS 18.0 for exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis and by using AMOS 18.0 for confirmatory factor analysis and structure equation model analysis. The findings were as follows. First, the covert narcissism had statistically positive effect on competitive anxiety. Second, the covert narcissism had statistically positive effect on sports aggression. Third, the competitive anxiety had statistically positive effect on sports aggression. Forth, the competitive anxiety showed moderated effect partially between covert narcissism and sports aggression. The sports leaders believe that in guiding aggressive students in sporting activities, a long-term approach to reducing covert narcissism is needed while eliminating factors that increase competitive anxiety.

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