This study was conducted for the purpuse of imvesegery investigate the influence of college Taekwondo competition players' self-leadership on sports confidence and athletic performance to propose the methods for enhancing sports confidence and athletic performance and provide the baseline data for the enhancement of the players' sports confidence in the matches. Thus, this study analyzed that of 236 college Taekwondo competition players registered in the Korea Taekwondo Association in 2019. As a result of correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis of each material according to the purpose, using SPSS/WIN Statistics Software 22.0, the following conclusions were drawn.
First, it turned out that college Taekwondo competition players' self-leadership had a significant impact on sports confidence. To examine this closely, it turned out that it had significant impacts on the sub-factors of self-leadership, including constructive thought pattern strategies and behavior-focused strategies and that constructive thought pattern strategies and natural reward strategies had significant impacts on social support and coaching leadership. Overall, all sub-factors of self-leadership had significant impacts on sports confidence.
Second, it turned out college Taekwondo competition players' self-leadership had a significant impact on perceived performance. To examine this closely, only natural reward strategies affected competition performance, a sub-factor of perceived performance, and only natural reward strategies had a significant impact on satisfaction in competition. Overall, only behavior-focused strategies and constructive thought pattern strategies of self-leadership had significant impacts on perceived performance.
In sum, college Taekwondo competition players should promote confidence and self-leadership as well as exercise to maximize their ability and go up to a higher rank, and the players can get positive impacts more through these processes. Also, it is judged that players' enhancement of the self-leadership ability that can resolve various problems that occur in the environment, such as athletic training and college life would have good results in the player life and competition and would increase the players' satisfaction with exercise.