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This paper aims at studying the effect of the participants of the soccer schools for children on their sports commitment and their exercise adherence intention. The subjects are school boys from third graders to sixth graders participating in the children’s soccer schools located in Seoul and Kyunggi province, and 300 elementary school boys participating in 10 soccer schools selected by the convenience sampling as one of non-probability method were surveyed through circulating questionnaires. 278 questionnaires were used in the final analysis. 4 parts such as demographic characteristics & participation level of the soccer school participants, achievement goal orientation, sports commitment and exercise adherence intention were used as the measurement tools in the survey questionnaire. The effective samples among collected questionnaires were statistically analyzed after the first error test. The package program, SPSS for Windows 18.0 was used for the statistical analysis. The statistical techniques such as Exploratory Factor Analysis, Correlation Analysis, and Multiple Regression were applied to the analysis of questionnaire items. The results through the above methods are as follows: First, the task orientation and the self orientation factors of the achievement goal orientation has significant correlations with the cognitive commitment and the behavior commitment factors of the sports commitment. Also, the cognitive commitment and the behavior commitment have significant correlations with exercise adherence intention. And the task orientation factor of the achievement goal orientation affects the cognitive commitment and the behavior commitment factors of the sports commitment, and the exercise adherence intention significantly, but the self orientation factor has no such significant effects. Second, the cognitive commitment factor of the sports commitment has significant effect on the exercise adherence intention. In conclusion, the task orientation factor of the soccer school participants’ achievement goal orientation has the significant effect on the sports commitment and the exercise adherence intention, and only the cognitive commitment factor of the sports commitment affects the exercise adherence intention.
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