The Effect of Sports Motivation of Middle School SOCCER Players on the Sports Goal Orientation

Purpose: The study was conducted to verify how sports motivations affect sports goal orientations for mid-dle school soccer players. In order to achieve the goal of this study, a survey was conducted on 338 middle school soccer players to analyze the collected data. The conclusions of the analysis are as follows. Method: In this study, the data collected through the questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS 26.0. Frequen-cy analysis was conducted to identify the demographic and statistical characteristics of the study participants, and the reliability coefficient(Cronbach α) was calculated to determine the stability, consistency, and predicta-bility of the measurement tools for each item. One-way ANOVA was conducted to find out how the demograph-ic variables of middle school soccer players differed in sports motivation and sports goal orientation. In addition, multiple regression analysis was conducted to verify how sports motivations of middle school soccer players affect their sports goal orientations. The significance level of all the statistics was set at .05. Result: First, the analysis of the differences in sports motivation according to the school year of middle school soccer players showed statistically significant differences in self-control and amotivation factors. Second, an analysis of the differences in sports motivation according to the athletic career of middle school soccer players showed statistically significant differences in intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and amotivation factors. Third, an analysis of the effect of middle school soccer players sports motivation on sports goal orien-tation showed that self-control was a factor in task orientation and that there were statistically significant dif-ferences in intrinsic and extrinsic motivations on the ego orientation. Suggestions: Suggestions for future studies based on the results of this study include the following. This study was conducted only for middle school students, so subsequent studies would be meaningful if they were conducted on high school and college students as well. And a study on the differences between teenagers, col-lege students, and regular soccer players will also be meaningful. It would also be meaningful if there were studies that identified not only sports motivation and sports goal orientation but also relationships with various variables and qualitative studies that could find in-depth causes.