本研究以國外學者主張運動員生涯轉換的多向度、長期全人的理論模式為架構，旨在探討國內學生運動員在生涯轉換上，有關動機與其相關心理層面的變項，是否存在年齡分層上的差異。同時以長期縱貫的方式，追蹤學生運動員在生涯轉換後的學業、訓練與生活適應品質的影響。研究結果顯示，國中與高中學生運動員在面對生涯轉換時，在動機層面存在不同的結果，國中升高中的學生運動員較高中升大學的運動員有較非適應性的動機結果。而對於學生運動員生涯轉換後的品質影響，則屬基本心理需求中的隸屬感、工作涉入的動機氣候與自我決定的動機影響較大。研究的結果與發現提供運動從業人員提早介入生涯轉換輔導工作的啟示與建議。
Athletes career transition is one of the most popular subject in the sport psychology literature. It has been studied since 1960 and recently a whole person, holistic, lifespan, multi-level approach(Wylleman, Lavalle, & Alfermann, 1999) has been proposed. The present study was aimed to examine the athletes career transition issues based on both social cognitive approach and multi-level transition model to investigate personal factors such as achievement goals and motivation regulations and situational factors (for example, motivation climate and autonomy support) to influence how athletes coping and attention of drop-out. In addition, a perspective approach were proposed to examine the dynamic of how student-athletes and athletes used to be diffenciated in the way of how they feel, act, thoughts of their latter life after a critical transition period. this study expected to find different pattern of individual factors and situation factors between junior and senior high school students.