Designing and Testing Causal Model of Relation between Dispositional Flow, Competitive Anxiety, Mental Toughness and Sport Orientation

This study aims to provide designing and testing causal model of relation between dispositional flow، competitive anxiety، mental toughness and sport orientation in students of Physical Education. All students of Physical Education were selected as sampling group in 92-93 years. Respondents answered to Sports Mental Toughness Questionnaire (SMTQ)، Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (DFS-2) and Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire and Competitive Anxiety Questionnaire. Results showed that proposed model are not graceful to the data and needs some requirements. Therefore، by omission of non-meaningful routes، fitting of final antecedent’s model with data was approved by RMSEA. Based on findings، dispositional flow، through Competitive anxiety، has indirect meaningful effect on mental toughness. But for dispositional flow، such indirect meaningful relation with sport orientation was not observed through competitive anxiety. This model can be a useful model for mental toughness of athletes.