The attribution of success and failure in sport situation of male and female individual sport athletes in the twentieth University games of Thailand, B.E. 2536
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study and compare the attribution of success and failure in sport situation of male and female individual sport athletes in the twentieth university games of Thailand, B.E. 2536. In addition, the interaction between athlete groups and sexes was examined. Samples were two hundred individual sport athletes classified as to 100 males and 100 females, who participated in tennis, table-tennis, badminton, judo, and fencing. They rated the inventory on attribution of success and failure in sport situation. The collected data were analyzed in terms of means, standard deviations, and two-way analysis of variance. The results indicated that: 1. In attributions to luck, the successful athletes and failing athletes, the male athletes and female athletes were not significantly different at the .05 level. There was no interaction between the athlete groups and sexes. 2. In attribution to competing condition, the successful athletes were higher than failing athletes, male athletes and female athletes were not significantly different at the .05 level. There was no interaction between the athlete groups and sexes. 3. In attribution to task difficulty, the successful athletes were higher than failing athletes, male athletes and female athletes were not significantly different at the .05 level. There was no interaction between athlete groups and sexes. 4. In attribution to coachs bias, the successful athletes were higher than failing athletes, the male athletes were higher than female athletes, significantly different at the .05 level. There was interaction between athlete groups and sexes. 5. In attribution to emotion, the successful athletes were higher than failing athletes, the male athletes were higher than female athletes, significantly different at the .05 level. There was no interaction between athlete groups and sexes. 6. In attribution to temporary effort, the successful athletes were higher than failing athletes, the male athletes and female athletes were not significantly different at the .05 level. There was no interaction between athlete groups and sexes. 7. In attribution to ability, the successful athletes were higher than failing athletes, the male athletes were higher than female athletes, significantly different at the .05 level. There was no interaction between athlete groups and sexes. 8. In attribution to permanent effort, successful athletes and failing athletes were not different, male athletes were higher than female athletes, significantly different at the .05 level. There was no interaction between athlete groups and sexes.