The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effects of basic psychological needs satisfaction and thwarting on the relationship between coaching type and state anxiety perceived by kumdo players. The subjects were 209 high school athletes pa...
The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effects of basic psychological needs satisfaction and thwarting on the relationship between coaching type and state anxiety perceived by kumdo players. The subjects were 209 high school athletes participating in the 47th National Sports Kumdo of the Ministry of Culture and Sports in 2018. These subjects completed the questionnaires to measure autonomy supportive coaching, controlling coaching, basic psychological need satisfaction and thwarting, state anxiety. The major findings were as follow. First, autonomy supported coaching showed a positive(+) effect on psychological desire satisfaction, And negative(-) influence on the psychological need thwarting. Controlling coaching has negative(-) effects pointless on psychological need satisfaction, And positive(+) influence on the psychological need thwarting. Second, psychological need satisfaction of has a pointless negative(-) influence on anxiety, the psychological need thwarting showed a positive(+) effect on anxiety. Third, autonomy supportive coaching did not have significant effect on anxiety through psychological desire satisfaction, Controlling coaching showed a significant indirect effect on anxiety via psychological need thwarting.