A Study of the Relationship Between Willpower Quality and Goal Orientation of Students Specialising in a Technical-combat Competence-dominated Adversarial Group of Disciplines
Goal Orientation Theory is mostly used in sport contexts to explore individuals’ drives and behaviours in the process of reaching their goals. Will quality as a psychological quality has a certain tendency of stable characteristics, which also affects the individual’s motivation and behavioural choices. Therefore, it is of more important practical significance to study the relationship between athletes’ motivation and will quality in the field of sports. Methods: In this paper, 180 professional students of some technical combat ability dominant same-court confrontation and across-the-net confrontation type items in the Sports College of Hubei University were investigated through the scale survey method and data analysis method, and the data were analysed by using SPSS 26.0 to explore the possible relationship between their volitional qualities and goal orientation. Results: It was found that there were differences in the partial dimensions of will quality and goal orientation of students participating in different confrontation item groups (p<0.05), the decisiveness of students in the same confrontation item was significantly higher than that of students in the inter-net confrontation item, and the task orientation and self-orientation of the same confrontation group was significantly higher than that of the inter-net confrontation group; there were differences in the partial dimensions of will quality and goal orientation of students in the same item groups in terms of gender and education level (p<0.05). There is a significant positive correlation between will quality and goal orientation, in which the dimensions of toughness and independence have a significant predictive effect on task and self-orientation. Conclusion: It is important to pay attention to the characteristics of students’ volitional qualities in different sports during training, and to understand the students’ goal orientation tendency, so as to adopt targeted training programmes to improve students’ motivation and attention, and to better improve their special technical level and competitive performance.