2016 年 49 巻 p. 9-18
This study aimed to develop a cognitive scale and demonstrate a structure of team tactics for college football players. The study used a questionnaire, answered by 310 male college football players (age: 19.9 ± 1.2 years, experience: 12.4 ± 2.9 years). The data collected was subjected to exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis and confirmatory factor analysis by structural equation modeling. The results showed that college football players’ cognitive structure of team tactics comprised five factors: understanding the concept, mastery, importance, difficulty and emphasis on the result. The result of the confirmatory factor analysis showed a sufficient construct validity of the model, which comprised 15 items within the five factors. The results also showed the relative importance of the college football players’ cognitive factors, in descending order: understanding the concept, mastery, difficulty, importance and emphasis on the result. The suggestions for coaching were as follows:
1. College football players who did not think about using team tactics showed a lower cognition for the factor of understanding the concept than those players who thought about using it.
2. College football players who were substitutes found it more difficult to understand team tactics than regular football players.