The mechanism linking self-determined motivation to pickleball continuance intention: mediating role of leisure specialization and gender heterogeneity
Yajun Wu, Zhidong Dai, Soohyun Kim, Xin Lyu, Kailin Zhong · 2026
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Yajun Wu, Zhidong Dai, Soohyun Kim, Xin Lyu, and Kailin Zhong study why pickleball players keep playing in a 2026 paper. The sport is a low-barrier paddle game that has spread fast. The team joined two drive theories to ask how inner drive turns into a plan to stay with the game.
Survey data from 789 players at Chinese meets fed their chain model. Drive of three kinds, self-rule, skill feel, and kin feel, each lifted how deep players sank into the sport as a craft. That depth in turn carried part of the path to staying plans. Sex did not bend those paths, which the team ties to the game's mixed, low-threshold form.
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| CREATOR | Yajun Wu, Zhidong Dai, Soohyun Kim, Xin Lyu, Kailin Zhong |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 71 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |