Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among achievement goal orientation, sports performance strategies, and competitive anxiety of professional golfers. Through convenience sampling method, selected 218 survey questionnaires were used for final analysis from professional golfers. With the collected data multiple regression analysis were performed by SPSS 21.0. The results of the analysis were summarized as follows. First, the task propensity and ego propensity impacts positively(+) influence on self-talk, control of condition, and imagery and goal orientation, and the ego propensity impacts positively(+) influence on relaxation. Moreover the task propensity impacts positively(+) influence on emotional control. Second, the achievement goal orientation impacts no significantly influence on cognitive state anxiety and somatic state anxiety, but the task propensity and ego propensity impacts positively(+) influence on state confidence. Third, the control of condition and emotional control impacts negatively(-) influence on cognitive state anxiety, and the emotional control impacts negatively(-) influence on somatic state anxiety. Moreover the self-talk, control of condition, imagery and goal orientation, and emotional control positively(+) influence on state confidence. These results mean that improved their sports performance strategies and state confidence through achievement goal orientation of professional golfers, and improving their competitive anxiety through sports performance strategies.

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