Journal of Physical Education and Sports Management

Assessment of Goal Orientation among Adolescent Athletes with Regard to Their Participation in Recreation and Leisure Activities: A Factor Analysis Approach
Md. Dilsad Ahmed

Abstract
The main purpose of the study was to explore the goal orientation among the athletes of the same age category with regard to their participation in recreational and leisure activities and also to see the differences between both the sexes (male and female). To achieve the purpose of the study 99 adolescent athletes were selected for the study. Out of which 50 were male athletes and 49 were female athletes. Their ages ranged from 12 to 17 years. These athletes were selected on the basis of their active participation in games and sports and also used to participate in various tournaments conducted by the District Sports Office, under the authority of Directorate of Sports, Assam. To measure the Goal Orientation level of the athletes both male and female athletes the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire TEOSQ devised by (Duda & Whitehead, 1998) was used. It assessed dispositions towards task and ego achievement goal orientations. The TEOSQ asks subjects to think of when they felt most while participating in recreation and leisure activities. The TEOSQ elicits scores on task (7-items) and ego (6-items) orientation through the stem "I feel most successful in PE when...”. Each item was answered on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 ("strongly disagree") to 5 ("strongly agree"). Lucid interpretation was carried using Descriptive statistics such mean and standard Deviation. To establish the correlation matrix Pearson correlation was used. Further to explore items analysis, factor analysis using principal component analysis and varimax rotation methods was used. To see the gender based analysis Two Way analysis of variance was used. Cronbach alpha was used to see the reliability of the retained items of the goal orientation questionnaire. The finding of the study showed that, all the items were retained after the exploratory factor analysis using varimax rotation. Further t-test showed no significant difference between both the sexes in the subfactor task-orientation and ego-orientation.

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