Structural Relationship between Intrinsic Motivation, Exercise Commitment, Self-fulfillment, and Perceived Performance of Taekwondo Breaking Athletes

The purpose of this study was conducted to provide basic data for the study for taekwondo breaking athletes by analyzing the structural relationship between intrinsic motivation, exercise commitment, self-fulfillment, and perceived performance. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, 238 athletes who participated in the 2022 Taekwondo Breaking Competition at least once were surveyed and data were collected and analyzed to derive the following results. First, the intrinsic motivation of taekwondo breaking athletes is analyzed between exercise commitment and positive (+) influence. Second, it was analyzed that the cognitive immersion of the Taekwondo breaking athletes had a negative (-) effect on the sense of self-fulfillment, and the behavioral immersion had a positive (+) effect. Third, in the relationship between self-fulfillment and perceived performance, it was analyzed that there was a negative (-) relationship between ability development and a positive (+) impact on performance.