Research on Youth Sports Interest Cultivation and Physical Education Innovation Strategies
Mar 19, 2025
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Published Online: Mar 19, 2025
Received: Oct 28, 2024
Accepted: Feb 05, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2025-0519
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The path coefficient test results
Path | Estimated value | S.E. | C.R. | P | Normalization factor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Psychological environment → Interest excitation | 0.521 | 0.045 | 8.965 | 0.001*** | 0.236 |
Physical environment → Interest excitation | 0.226 | 0.096 | 5.617 | 0.000*** | 0.218 |
Institutional environment → Interest excitation | 0.186 | 0.038 | 6.501 | 0.003*** | 0.169 |
Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.375 | 0.045 | 7.139 | 0.004*** | 0.353 |
Psychological environment → Interest retention | 0.264 | 0.052 | 4.248 | 0.002*** | 0.267 |
Physical environment → Interest retention | 0.182 | 0.069 | 6.331 | 0.000*** | 0.241 |
Institutional environment → Interest retention | 0.299 | 0.024 | 8.634 | 0.011*** | 0.398 |
Model fitting statistics
Model fitting | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Results | 301.251 | 205 | 2.326 | 0.967 | 0.993 | 0.975 | 0.935 | 0.927 | 0.031 |
Recommended value | / | / | <3 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 | <0.05 |
The mediation effect tests the results
Path | Effect value | BootSE | BootLLCI | BootULCI | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total effect | Institutional environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.526 | 0.042 | 0.298 | 0.563 |
Physical environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.332 | 0.055 | 0.179 | 0.478 | |
Psychological environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.486 | 0.039 | 0.396 | 0.569 | |
Direct effect | Institutional environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.399 | 0.035 | 0.352 | 0.521 |
Physical environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.155 | 0.051 | 0.121 | 0.163 | |
Psychological environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.416 | 0.086 | 0.241 | 0.231 | |
Indirect effect | Institutional environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.077 | 0.052 | 0.125 | 0.119 |
Physical environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.093 | 0.021 | 0.061 | 0.272 | |
Psychological environment → Interest excitation → Interest retention | 0.152 | 0.013 | 0.056 | 0.351 |
The correlation between the dimensions of interest and the perception gap
I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I | 1 | ||||||||
II | 0.53** | 1 | |||||||
III | 0.94** | 0.87** | 1 | ||||||
IV | 0.25** | 0.32** | 0.32** | 1 | |||||
V | -0.26** | -0.05** | -0.15** | 0.11** | 1 | ||||
VI | 0.34** | 0.41** | 0.42** | 0.56** | -0.03** | 1 | |||
VII | 0.49** | 0.36** | 0.52** | 0.45** | 0.25** | 0.63** | 1 | ||
VIII | 0.31** | 0.21** | 0.33** | 0.32** | -0.09** | 0.24** | 0.24** | 1 | |
IX | 0.56** | 0.43** | 0.68** | 0.52** | -0.15** | 0.69** | 0.62** | 0.21** | 1 |
The regression analysis of the overall dimension of sports interest
Variable | First step | Second step | Fourth step | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Grade | -0.065 | 0.008 | -0.212*** | -0.025 | 0.007 | -0.089*** | -0.021 | 0.005 | |
Gender | -0.042 | 0.035 | 0.041 | 0.019 | 0.024 | -0.004 | 0.032 | 0.023 | -0.060*** |
Physical health | 0.029 | 0.015 | 0.025 | 0.009 | 0.015 | 0.015 | 0.012 | 0.012 | 0.024 |
Physical perception | 0.035 | 0.019 | 0.171*** | 0.031 | 0.017 | 0.032* | 0.015 | 0.015 | 0.012 |
Novelty | 0.245 | 0.019 | 0.201*** | 0.251 | 0.018 | 0.013 | |||
Challenge | -0.113 | 0.034 | -0.101*** | -0.096 | 0.021 | 0.015 | |||
Attention demand | 0.521 | 0.018 | 0.423*** | 0.235 | 0.023 | 0.189*** | |||
Perception gap | 0.315 | 0.025 | -0.098*** | ||||||
Exploration intention | 0.102 | 0.19 | 0.245*** | ||||||
Instant pleasure | 0.152 | 0.052 | 0.175** | ||||||
Δ |
0.1674 | 0.6228 | 0.6869 |