the relationship between self-efficacy and optimism with Dimensions of sport Achievement Motivation among physical education students of Karaj Azad University

One of the issues that has recently been taken into consideration by sports psychologists is sport Achievement Motivation.The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between self-efficacy and optimism with Dimensions of sport Achievement Motivation among physical education students of Karaj Azad University in the academic year 2016-2017 using the correlation method. To determine the sample size, 380 subjects (230 Female and 150 male) were selected by Morgan table. In this research, three questionnaires were used for collecting data including: Scheier and Carver’s optimism questionnaire, Gale’s Sport Orientation Questionnaire and Scheier’s General Self-Efficacy Scale. To analyze the data by the SPSS software the descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, variance, minimum and maximum score, and inferential statistics such as Pearson correlation and regression coefficients were used. The results of the study showed that there is a significant positive relationship between self-efficacy and optimism with Dimensions of sport Achievement Motivation.