The most important thing for an athlete is to have sport-confidence, which has been defined as “the belief or degree of certainty individuals possess about their ability to be successful in sport”. All coaches and athletes agree on the importance of sport-confidence out on the field, but there is very little empirical data on the types and sources of sport-confidence possessed by athletes. This study explores the types of sport-confidence based on the multidimensional sport-confidence model systematized by Vealey et al., and the study attempts to develop a scale that can measure this. To achieve this objective, types of sport-confidence were explored through an open-ended questionnaire targeting 293 athletes in 9 different sports, including cycling and soccer, and a sport-confidence type scale was developed for 649 athletes in 17 different sports, including shooting and soccer, and its validity was verified. As a result of the study, six types of sport-confidence in athletes were explored: game preparation, relative superiority, past achievement experiences, social support, positive teamwork, and cognitive efficiency. As a result of validation of the scale developed based on this, the 6-factor, 20-item structure of game preparation, relative superiority, social support, cognitive efficiency, training satisfaction, and game operation ability was finally confirmed. In the validation process, the sport-confidence type scale identified differences according to the history of winning competitions, and the correlation of CSAI-2 was also confirmed. These results were discussed in terms of the expansion of sport-confidence research and use in the field such as psychological counseling.
Tae-Hyung Kim (Thu,) studied this question.