The Relationship between Career Plateau, Exercise Satisfaction, Exercise Commitment, and Career Transition Intention of Student Athletes

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between career plateau, exercise satisfaction, exercise commitment and career transition intention of student athletes. For the study, student athletes registered with the Seoul City Sports Council were the population, which were surveyed from March to May 2020. Specifically, most participants were student athletes studying National Sport University, and some of which were middle and high school student athletes. A total of 340 student athletes were sampled using convenience sampling method, but 306 were finally used in the data analysis excepting incomplete or faithless questionnaires. The data analysis was conducted through frequency analysis, Cronbach's α, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), correlation analysis and Structural Equation Model (SEM) using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0. Firstly, career plateau of student athletes negatively had a significant effect on exercise satisfaction and exercise commitment. Secondly, career plateau of student athletes partially had a significant impact on career transition intention. Lastly, exercise commitment negatively had a significant effect on career transition intention. Therefore, supervisors need to closely manage the career plateau of student athletes.