The Causal Relations among Exercise Self-schema, Self-efficacy and Intention of Athletic Participation in Elementary School Children

Abstract

Purpose: The Purpose of this study was to define casual relation among exercise self-schema, self-efficacy and intention of athletic participation of elementary school children. Methods: This study set up a casual relation model which was composed of exogenous variables exercise self-schema and endogenous variables were self-efficacy and intention of athletic participation of children. The participants were 538 elementary school children(boys: 266, girls: 272) who were more 5 th grade in G city and J province. This study used exercise self-schema, self-efficacy, and intention of athletic participation scales. This study use descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and path analysis. Results: In analysis of description, children show general range(3.0) means of exercise self-schema, self-efficacy, and intention athletic participation. The boys showed higher behavioral self-schema and self-efficacy than those of girls. In analysis of correlation, there were significant relations between self-schema, self-efficacy, and intention of athletic participation each other. In analysis structure equation, this model can be used as theoretical model because general indexes were proved (χ 2 =180.87, df=82, Q=2.20, RMR=.037, GFI=.994, TLI=.973, CFI=.979, RMSEA=.054). In analysis details index, there were significant paths of self-schema ⟶ self-efficacy, self-schema → intention of athletic participation, and self-schema⟶ intention of athletic participation. Conclusion: In this study define there are causal relationships among self-schema, self-efficacy, and intention of athletic participation. In this study, self-efficacy have positive effect(+) to the intention of athletic participation and effect of partial mediator between self-schema and intention of athletic participation.