Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in self-encouragement, self-discouragement, self-esteem, self-management, psychological well-being in a characteristics of athletes with disabilities and to examine the relationships of those variables among them. Methods: A total of 324 athletes with physical disabilities (male=208, female=115) completed self-encouragement and discouragement, self-esteem, self-management, psychological well-being measure. Results: Participants who have an affiliation, full-time, salary, athlete’s career, and motivation had positively higher on self-encouragement, self-esteem, self-management, psychological well-being. However, self-discouragement and negative self-esteem were higher affiliation, low career, and motivation by others. Self-encouragement had positively influence the self-esteem, self-management, psychological well-being, whereas self-discouragement had negatively affect on the self-esteem, self-management. Moreover, the self-encouragement showed a positive indirect effect on the psychological well-being and self-discouragement appeared a negative indirect effect on the psychological well-being. Conclusion: It is required to necessity a positive self-encouragement of the disabled athletes because self-awareness and beliefs affects their behavior of individuals.

I. 서 론
 Ⅱ. 연구방법
  1. 연구대상
  2. 조사도구
  3. 조사절차
  4. 자료분석
 Ⅲ. 결 과
  1. 장애인 운동선수의 배경변인에 따른 자기격려-낙담, 자아존중감, 자기관리, 심리적 안녕감 차이
  2. 장애인 운동선수의 변인간 가설적 인과모형 검증결과
 Ⅳ. 논의 및 결론
 참고문헌

• 이계윤(전남대학교 체육교육과) | Kye-Yun Lee (Department of Physical Education, Chonnam National University)
• 조홍종(전남대학교 특수체육과) | Hong-Joong Cho (Department of Sport and Health, Chonnam National University)
• 장정윤(전라남도교육청) | Jung-Yun Jang (Jeollanamdo Office of Education) Corresponding author