Heny Setyawati, Didik Rinan Sumekto, Tandiyo Rahayu
This study aims at investigating student-athletes’ swearing motives in attending sports training programs and tournaments. This study involved 210 respondents (n = 201, Mage = 21.65; SD = 3.994), which were organized by the National Sports Committee of Indonesia, Jawa Tengah Province, Indonesia. The IBM SPSS program was utilized to collect data using a self-rated questionnaire with a 5-Likert scale evaluating rage, stressing from opponents, alleviating tension and frustration, and personalizing everyday expression. Although there were no statistically significant differences among the determinants, the results suggested that the scaled determinants empirically triggered student-athletes' swearing motives in expressing anger (M = 2.13; SD =.922), stressing from opponents (M = 2.15; SD = 1.005), relieving tension and frustration (M = 1.98; SD = 1.019), and customizing daily expression (M = 2.10; SD = 1.087).The dependent variable showed that F (4, 202), p = .000; Wilks’ Lambda = .58; and partial eta squared = .13, whilst the normality, linearity, and homoscedasticity consequences were not transgressive. Hence, among the determinants had positive correlations (r = .769, n = 210, p<.01), among the determinants, with student-athletes' swearing expression levels successively connected with expressing anger, customizing daily expression, and alleviating tension and frustration. Meanwhile, social media was mostly eligible to determine gender-based swearing expressions (females = 50.4%, males = 43.2%), expressed by native swearwords. These swearing motives constitute the intrinsic and extrinsic interactions that conditionally differentiate student-athletes' psychological well-being across the areas of self-acceptance, autonomy, environment, and personal maturity, whether positive or negative behaviors. © 2022, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta State University). All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia; Universitas Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa, Indonesia
