Abstract
The purpose of the study was to clarify the influence of participating in a tennis competition on tennis participants from the viewpoints of participant motives, continuance intentions, and frequency of participation.
We analyzed differences of participant motives, continuance intentions, and frequency of participation for tennis between before participating in a competition and after participating in the competition for tennis participants. The concrete method of investigation was to carry out a questionnaire survey to compare “club members participating in the competition” with “club members not participating in the competition” . Data were examined for significance by two-way ANOVA and multiple comparison tests.
As a result, the main findings are summarized as follows:
1) Participating in competition lead to improving skill mastery and social facilitation in participant motives for tennis.
2) Having plans for participating in competition lead to inhibiting depression of continuance intentions for tennis during the period before the competition.
3) Having plans for participating in competition lead to improving frequency of participation in tennis during the period before the competition.
