A Comparative Study of the Scholastic and Athletic Abilities of University Football Players - Regarding the Maintenance of Self-Efficacy in Athletics and Academics, and Other Related Matters –

Takashi Nakano, Kouta Okada, Ken Okihara, Tomohiro Fukuda, Shiho Kurosaka, Rika Okai, Katsuya Yamashita, Mitsuhisa Shiokawa, Akira Kan, Chul Soon Choi

In this study, we analysed the relationship between athletic and academic self-efficacy, where one condition was to establish both athletic and academic abilities. As the analytical method, we compared and analysed the findings of Kawada et al. (2015) and those of O University in this study, and the results are shown in the following three points.
1. The average marks of the athletic and academic self-efficacy of first and second-year students were high and indicated thus that a correlation can be easily shown. Since football players who were active during high school and managed excellent grades in academics are highly likely to enter university, it is conceivable that these high school experiences greatly influenced the values of their athletic and academic self-efficacy.
2. The athletic self-efficacy values of third and fourth-year students were lower than those when first entering university, if they were not selected to be among the 11 players chosen out of the many members.
3. From the trend indicated in the second conclusion, the maintenance of athletic self-efficacy, an essential element for achieving scholastic and athletic abilities, is a difficult environment for third and fourth-year students. Due to this environment, it was considered difficult for many players to continue to maintain their scholastic and athletic abilities up to graduation.

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