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Abstract

Publication Date

1-14-2026

Abstract

In the research on the psychological abilities in sports competitions, exploring sports motivation is indispensable. Sports motivation has the functions of stimulating students' sports behaviors, guiding students to choose sports events, and strengthening and maintaining students' participation in sports. Sports confidence is the main stabilizing factor in students' mental health. Failure coping is the most important link in students' psychological adjustment after competitions. Paying attention to the characteristics and relationships of the students' confidence in sports, coping with failure, and motivation for sports is conducive to making the students of this major attach importance to the development of their competitive psychological abilities in sports and become physical education teachers oriented towards the core competencies of the subject. Method: The "Sports Psychological Factors Questionnaire", the "Chinese Athlete Stress Coping Scale", and the "Sports Motivation Scale" were adopted. All the above scales. The questionnaire survey was conducted in two steps: the pre-survey and the formal survey. The formal survey selected 897 undergraduate students majoring in Physical Education from Beijing Sport University, Guangzhou Sport University, and Tianjin Sport University from 2018 to 2021. The effective data were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 software. The total effect, direct effect, and mediating effect of the variables were tested and analyzed by P 3.3. The correlation between trait and state confidence in movement confidence is significant and positive (r=0.409, P < 0.001). The correlation related to failure coping is that the correlations among the four dimensions are all significant and positive (r=0.255 to r=0.401). The correlation related to movement motivation that the participation tendency and avoidance tendency of movement motivation significantly positively correlated (r=0.329, P < 0.001). The correlations between trait confidence and state confidence under movement confidence and participation tendency and avoidance tendency under movement motivation were all significantly positive (r=0.275 to r=0.329). The correlations between failure coping and movement confidence and movement motivation that the correlations between failure coping and each dimension of movement confidence and movement motivation all significant and positive (r=0.245 to r=0.3294). There are significant differences in sports confidence, failure coping, and sports motivation among female and male students, as well as among students of different sports programs and grades. Failure coping strategies are significantly correlated with all dimensions of sports confidence and sports motivation.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.18122/ijpah.5.1.243.boisestate

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