The Study Of Chinese Sports Dance Partnership And Its Effects On Competitive Performance

Sports dance is a"partner dancing"of the opposite sex.Although the important influence of the dance partnership between partners on competitive performance has become the consensus of scholars,teachers and players at home and abroad on the level of experience,few studies have explored the psychological interaction between male and female dance partners,The excavation and verification of the specific dimensions of sports dance partnership in Chinese context and the psychological mechanism of each dimension affecting competitive performance are in the initial stage,which makes it impossible to accurately and scientifically guide sports training and competition practice.Especially in the field of sports dance training and competition in China,Dance Sport Partnerhip is embedded in the Chinese cultural background and should have a unique cultural psychological imprint that has not been studied.Based on the above,this research uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods from the perspective of cultural psychology to try to construct a measurement model of the dimensional structure of the partnership between dance couples under the Chinese cultural background,and explore the relationship between the paired partnership,Athlete Engagement and performance in China.At the same time,it provides a theoretical explanation for the cultural integration of relations in the operation of competition-cooperative relations under the background of Chinese society and culture.Findings:(1)Chinese Sports Dance Partnership refers to the interpersonal relationship formed by pairs of male and female athletes in the whole process of training,competition and life with the goal of obtaining excellent competitive performance,which takes Interpersonal Perception as the basis of interaction,mutual assistance and reciprocity as the behavior(tendency)and emotion as the link.It includes 3 dimension:Obligationnal Instrumental ties、Expressive ties、Interpersonal Perception.Obligationnal Instrumental ties refer to the reciprocal behavior tendency of pairs of male and female athletes based on the principle of moral obligation to maintain their interpersonal relationship in the whole process of taking sports dance competition as the goal,including the concepts of morally abiding by the training plan and reaching the goal;Expressive ties refers to the emotional bond containing passion produced by pairs of athletes in the whole process of taking sports dance competition as the goal,including the concepts of care,appreciation and passion;Interpersonal Perception refers to the ability of pairs of male and female players to share and expose each other in the whole process of taking sports dance competition as the goal,so as to sensitively perceive the psychological and behavioral tendencies of dance partners,including the concepts of revealing their hearts,sharing and understanding each other.(2)This study develops a second-order model of sports dance partnership scale(Chinese version),which is composed of three dimensions and 12 items:Obligationnal Instrumental ties,Expressive ties and Interpersonal Perception.The fitting index of the model isχ~2/df=2.319,GFI=0.938,AGFI=0.906,NFI=0.957,CFI=0.975,PNFI=0.740,PGFI=0.614,RMSEA=0.068,SRMR=0.037.All three dimensions had high impact on the measured items,with factor loadings between 0.488 and 0.932,which were greater than the criterion of 0.45,while the path coefficients of the second-order models reached significant levels,and the scales had high convergent validity.In addition the scale also had some differential validity,the correlation coefficients between the three subscales and between the subscales and the total score were less than the criterion of 0.900,between 0.555 and 0.869,all of which reached the significance level(p<0.05).(3)The theoretical model of Chinese sport partnership and its impact on competitive performance constructed in this study includes five core variables:Obligationnal Instrumental ties,Expressive ties and Interpersonal Perception,Athlete Engagement and competitive performance.The three dimensions of dance partnership affect competitive performance through the intermediary effect of Athlete Engagement.Among them,the intermediary effect of Athlete Engagement explains 100%of the variation of Obligationnal Instrumental ties,while it partially mediated between Expressive ties、Interpersonal Perception and competitive performance,respectively with the upper and lower limits of the 95%confidence interval of the mediating effect being(0.036,0.148)and(0.034,0.138),with effect values of 0.088 and 0.082,and accounted for 25.29%and 24.40%of the total effect,respectively.(4)Regardless of gender,the mean scores of Obligationnal Instrumental ties,Expressive ties,and Interpersonal Perception decreased in that order.Male dance partners tended to include their dance partners in couples,close friends,and kin-like relationships with higher emotional concentration,and had significantly stronger Athlete Engagement than female dance partners,while female dance partners tended to include their dance partners in general friends and pure cooperative relationships with higher instrumentality,and their degree of obligatory instrumentation,i.e.,purpose and sense of obligation,was not lower than that of male dance partners.Male and Female’Interpersonal Perception,Obligationnal Instrumental ties,and Expressive ties directly influenced their own competitive performance,and acted on their own competitive performance by influencing their own and their female partner’s Athlete Engagement.After introducing the mediation of male and female partners’Athlete Engagement,male partners’Obligationnal Instrumental ties,Expressive ties and Interpersonal Perception and female partners’Obligationnal Instrumental ties exerted actor-effects to indirectly influence their own competitive performance,but female partners’Expressive ties and Interpersonal Perception still could not indirectly influence their own competitive performance through their own Athlete Engagement.In contrast,both female partner’s Expressive ties and Interpersonal Perception and male partner’s Interpersonal Perception exerted an object effect that significantly and positively influenced partner’s competitive performance,but male and female partner’s Obligationnal Instrumental ties and male partner’s Expressive ties did not have a significant effect on partner’s competitive performance,while female partner’s Obligationnal Instrumental ties(β=0.315,SE=0.083,95%CI=0.155,0.547),male partner’s expressive ties(β=0.152,SE=0.074,95%CI=0.002,0.256),and male partner’s Interpersonal Perception(β=0.122,SE=0.060,95%CI=0.005,0.240)would each exert an object effect on their partner’s competitive performance.When the variable of male partner’s Athlete Engagementwas considered,female partner’s expressive ties exerted an indirect object effect on male partner’s competitive performance(β=0.086,SE=0.041,95%CI=0.003,0.149).Conclusions:(1)Chinese Sports Dance Partnership refers to the interpersonal relationship formed by sports dance pairs of male and female athletes in the whole process of training,competition and life with the goal of obtaining excellent competitive performance,which takes Interpersonal Perception as the basis of interaction,mutual assistance and reciprocity as the behavior(tendency)and emotion as the link.It is composed of Obligationnal Instrumental ties,Expressive ties,and Interpersonal Perception.It refers to the reciprocal behavior tendency of pairs of male and female players in the whole process of taking sports dance competition as the goal,which aims to maintain the moral obligation of their interpersonal relationship as the principle,the emotional band containing passion,and the ability to share and expose each other,so as to sensitively perceive the psychology and behavior tendency of dance partners.(2)<The Sports DDance Partnership Scale(Chinese Version)>consists of 12items in three dimensions:Obligationnal Instrumental ties,Expressive ties,and Interpersonal Perception.The combined reliability,internal consistency reliability,predictive validity,differential validity and convergent validity of the scale meet the requirements of psychometrics,and can effectively measure the partnership of sports dance.(3)The theoretical model of Chinese dance sport partnerships and their influence on competitive performance constructed in this study is a high level generalization of Chinese sports dance partnerships consisting of three dimensions:Obligationnal Instrumental ties,Expressive ties,and Interpersonal Perception,which influence competitive performance both directly and through the mediating role of Athlete Engagement,which includes enthusiasm,confidence,dedication,and vigor.Among which,Athlete Engagement fully mediates between Obligationnal Instrumental ties and competitive performance,and partially mediates between Expressive ties,Interpersonal Perception and competitive performance.This theoretical model completes and extends the interpersonal theory of sport psychology to a certain extent.At the same time,it verifies that partnership not only directly affect competitive performance,but also influence competitive performance through the mediating role of Athlete Engagement.(4)Obligationnal Instrumental ties and Expressive ties,Interpersonal Perception,Athlete Engagement Under the Chinese background,the partnership between sports dancers is mainly based on Obligationnal Instrumental ties.The athletes put the most important position on whether their partner can promote the achievement of their own goals,the exertion of their skills,and whether it is not only for interests,but also for moral compliance with the training plan.Male and female dance partners can improve their competitive performance by improving the Obligationnal Instrumental ties and Expressive ties,Interpersonal Perception with partners,but each dimension has different effects on their competitive performance by changing their own or partner’s Athlete Engagement.Female dance partners have stronger utilitarian tendency and sense of obligation,and generate strong Athlete Engagement,which can not only improve their competitive performance,but also improve the competitive performance of male dance partners.At the same time,female dance partners believe that the more they understand each other and have strong Interpersonal Perception such as heart to heart with male dance partners,or the more they appreciate and care about male dance partners and express Expressive emotions such as strong passion shown by male dance partners in the competition,and effectively promote the Athlete Engagementof male dance partners,the more they can promote the competitive performance of male dance partners.In addition,male dancers’expressive ties may misjudge the current training or competition conditions because they are more open and"aggressive",which is not conducive to the partner-effect and affect the competitive performance of female dancers.However,it can produce partner-effect through the Athlete Engagement of female dance partners,improve the competitive performance of female dance partners,and show the phenomenon of"female training with men".The stronger the male partner’s perception of the female partner’s relationship and the stronger the expressive ties,the more it can promote the female partner’s Athlete Engagementand competitive performance,showing the phenomenon of"male training with female".