Abstract

The purposes of this study are to examine structural relations among the multidimensional perfectionism, sport confidence, and coping behavior strategies of professional golfers and analyze the mediating effects of sport confidence on relations between their perfectionism and coping behavior strategies. For these purposes, the study applied convenience sampling to the professional golfers that were registered at KPGA and KLPGA in 2018 and played in tournaments of the first and second division tours and selected total 235 valid samples. Collected data was tested for the fitness of the overall model and hypothesis testing with the SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 20.0 programs. The analysis results were as follows: first, self-orientedness, a subfactor of multidimensional perfectionism, had significant positive(+) effects on sport confidence, whereas other-orientedness and social imposition had no significant effects on it; second, sport confidence had positive(+) impacts on problem-oriented, emotion-oriented, and detached coping behavior and negative(-) impacts on avoidance; third, other-orientedness of multidimensional perfectionism had no significant effects on all the factors of coping behavior strategies, whereas self-orientedness had positive(+) effects on problem-oriented, emotion-oriented, and detached coping behavior and no significant effects on avoidance. In addition, social imposition had significant negative(-) and positive(+) influences on emotion-oriented coping behavior; and finally, sport confidence had mediating effects on relations between multidimensional perfectionism(self-oriented) and coping behavior strategies.

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