The Relationship between Adolescent Golf Players' Achievement Goal Orientation, Exercise Flow and Player's satisfaction

This study was designed to find the relationship between adolescent Golf players’ achievement goal orientation, exercise flow and player’s satisfaction. To test this 237 middle and high school Golf players who are registered in Korea Golf Association are sampled. The resulting data were processed by means of frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, structure modeling analysis using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 version program. Results derived from the researches based on the aforementioned methods and data analyses are as follows: First, adolescent Golf players’ task goal orientation and self goal orientation which are sub factors of achievement goal orientation had positive effect on exercise flow. Second, adolescent Golf players’ the task goal orientation sub factor of achievement goal orientation had positive effect on player’s satisfaction. Third, adolescent Golf players’ exercise flow had positive effect on player’s satisfaction.