The paper is trying to seek out the participants' motivation of Triathlon activities of Taiwan area. The samples of this research are from the participants of ”the president Enterprise Cup International Triathlon Competition” totaling two hundred and eighty seven. This research is classified as a questionnaire investigation. The pre-test of original questionnaire had been processed and analyzed by item and factor analysis to extract the factors and decide the final questionnaire. The data from the questionnaire were processed and analyzed by one-way ANOVA and t-Test. The participants' motivations were founded after factor analysis. The Factors as follows: self-challenging, achievements requiring, psychological requirement and health and physical fitness, however, there wasn't any significance on the factor of social requirement of any independent variables. For those who are male and female, different ages, married and unmarried, different vocation, different income and specific event variables, there are significant differences on the factors of motivation. The results of this research, the motivation of the participants of Triathlon are interesting, recreation and self achievement. Most of the participants of Triathlon are male, from all ages and vocation, with high level education. Seeking for self-achievement is the characteristic of most participants of Triathlon.
The paper is trying to seek out the participants' motivation of Triathlon activities of Taiwan area. The samples of this research are from the participants of ”the president Enterprise Cup International Triathlon Competition” totaling two hundred and eighty seven. This research is classified as a questionnaire investigation. The pre-test of original questionnaire had been processed and analyzed by item and factor analysis to extract the factors and decide the final questionnaire. The data from the questionnaire were processed and analyzed by one-way ANOVA and t-Test. The participants' motivations were founded after factor analysis. The Factors as follows: self-challenging, achievements requiring, psychological requirement and health and physical fitness, however, there wasn't any significance on the factor of social requirement of any independent variables. For those who are male and female, different ages, married and unmarried, different vocation, different income and specific event variables, there are significant differences on the factors of motivation. The results of this research, the motivation of the participants of Triathlon are interesting, recreation and self achievement. Most of the participants of Triathlon are male, from all ages and vocation, with high level education. Seeking for self-achievement is the characteristic of most participants of Triathlon.