This study set out to investigate the mediating effects of sport ability belief and sport performance strategies on the influence of gymnasts'' exercise passion on their performance composition for the floor event, thus providing first-line instructors with performance improvement plans needed for gymnast instruction and management and information about their education and psychology.
For these purposes, the investigator sampled 280 gymnasts that competed in the floor event at the 72th National Gymnastics Championship through convenience sampling. After the exclusion of 13 questionnaires whose reliability was deemed to be low, total 267 questionnaires were used in analysis.
Collected data were put to the descriptive analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and the Sobel test with the Window SPSS(Ver. 22.0) statistical program. The findings were as follows:
First, harmonious passion and stability of existence had negative effects on Difficulty Level A in performance composition. Stability of existence had partial mediating effects on the influence of harmonious passion on Difficulty Level A according to the hierarchical regression analysis and no statistically significant mediating effects between them according to the Sobel test results.
Second, harmonious passion and condition regulation had negative impacts on Difficulty Level A. Condition regulation had full mediating effects on the influence of harmonious passion on Difficulty Level A.
Third, harmonious passion and relaxing had positive impacts on Difficulty Level D. Relaxing had partial mediating effects on the influence of harmonious passion on Difficulty Level D.
Fourth, harmonious passion and talking to oneself had negative effects on Difficulty Level A. Talking to oneself had full mediating effects on the influence of harmonious passion on Difficulty Level A.
Fifth, obsessive passion and condition regulation had negative effects on Difficulty Level A. Condition regulation had full mediating effects on the influence of obsessive passion on Difficulty Level A.
Sixth, obsessive passion and condition regulation had positive impacts on Difficulty Level D. Condition regulation had full mediating effects on the influence of obsessive passion on Difficulty Level D.
Finally, obsessive passion and relaxing had positive impacts on Difficulty Level D. Relaxing had full mediating effects on the influence of obsessive passion on Difficulty Level D.
Based on these findings, the study made a couple of proposals for follow-up study: follow-up study should be more specific and detailed by taking into account the educational backgrounds and careers of gymnasts as the present study only covered the population of gymnasts; and it also needs to develop a scale to measure gymnasts'' difficulty level in performance composition.