Differences in PROTECTION for Sports Im-agery Ability of High School Taekwondo Breaking Athletes

Purpose: The study was conducted to verify the differences in sports imagery ability among high school students/taekwondo breading athletes participating in taekwondo breaking competitions across the country. In order to achieve the purpose of this research, 230 high school students/taekwondo breaking athletes who had participated in national-level taekwondo breaking competitions were surveyed and the collected data were an-alyzed. The conclusions of the analysis are as follows. Method: The study surveyed 230 high school taekwondo breaking athletes who participated in nationwide taekwondo breaking competitions. The survey was conducted online due to COVID-19. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0. Frequency analysis was conducted to identify the general characteristics of the study participants. T-test and one-way ANOVA were conducted to find out what the differences were in sports imagery ability among high school taekwondo breaking athletes. The significance level of all the statistics is set to .05. Result: First, as a result of verifying the differences in sports imagery ability according to the gender of high school breaking athletes who participated in taekwondo breaking competitions, statistically significant differences were found in the goal imagery factor. Second, as a result of verifying the differences in sports imagery ability according to the school year of high school breaking athletes who participated in taekwondo breaking competitions, statistically significant differences were found in the strategic imagery factor. Third, as a result of analyzing the differences in sports imagery ability according to the experience of demonstration training of high school breaking athletes who participated in taekwondo breaking competitions, statistically significant differences were found in the strategic imagery factor. Fourth, as a result of analyzing the differences in sports imagery ability according to the number of participation in breaking competitions of high school breaking athletes who participated in taekwondo breaking competitions, statistically significant differences were found in the strategic imagery factor and goal imagery factor. Fifth, as a result of analyzing the differences in sports imagery ability according to the experience of winning in competitions of high school breaking athletes who participated in taekwondo breaking competitions, statistically significant differences were found in the strategic imagery factor and goal imagery factor. Conclusion: As a result of analyzing the differences in sports psychological abilities of high school athletes who participated in the taekwondo competition, there was a statistically significant difference.