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Psychol."],"abstract":"\n Objective<\/jats:title>\n To clarify the mediating effects of perceived social support and sense of career calling on the relationship between psychological fatigue and sports motivation in short track speed skaters.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n Using a variety of research methods such as questionnaire survey and mathematical statistics, 817 short track speed skaters were selected as the research objects. The \u201cPsychological Fatigue Scale,\u201d \u201cSports Motivation Scale,\u201d \u201cPerceived Social Support Scale,\u201d and \u201cSense of Career Calling Scale\u201d were used for psychological measurement. SPSS 27.0 and PROCESS 4.2 macro program were used to test the mediating effect, chain mediating effect and Bootstrap analysis.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n In the correlation analysis, psychological fatigue was significantly negatively correlated with perceived social support (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = \u22120.363,\n p<\/jats:italic>\n &lt; 0.01), sense of career calling (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = \u22120.387,\n p<\/jats:italic>\n &lt; 0.01), and sports motivation (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = \u22120.375, p &lt; 0.01). Perceived social support was significantly positively correlated with sense of career calling (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.494,\n p<\/jats:italic>\n &lt; 0.01) and sports motivation (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n =0.505, p &lt; 0.01). There was a significant positive correlation between sense of career calling and sports motivation (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.520,\n p<\/jats:italic>\n &lt; 0.01).\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n (1) Perceived social support and sense of career calling play a separate mediating role between psychological fatigue and sports motivation of short track speed skaters. (2) Perceived social support and sense of career calling play a chain mediating role between psychological fatigue and sports motivation of short track speed skaters. 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