Ninth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

Motivation is one of the primary psychological skills in high performance tennis players; majority tennis players frequently confront losing in their athletic careers whether in the professional level or in the college level. Tennis players need motivation to be resilient, to train diligently and creatively after numerous frustrations or disappointments from the defeats. In addition, recent many sport psychological studies signify that competitive anxiety has a dreadful effect on tennis performance. It becomes clearer that many tennis players strive for enhancing their mental expertise to campaign the negative effect from competitive anxiety. International Tennis Federation indicates that various motivational perspectives will respectively influence the effect of competitive anxiety. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between motivational climate and the competitive anxiety among current collegiate tennis athletes in Hawaiʻi. 32 male and 2 female tennis players from different universities in Hawaiʻi participated in this research study. The result from the study shows that task-oriented goal motivation can efficiently mitigate the symptom of competitive anxiety, but ego-oriented goal motivation deteriorates the negative effect of competitive anxiety. Three measure instruments would use in this study are: The Sport Motivation Scale, Task-oriented and Ego-oriented Questionnaires, Sport Competitive Anxiety Scale The method of this study is Cross-Sectional and I will employ T-test to exam the variances from different questionnaires.