Improving athletes’ performance and ensuring continuity of athletes is important for national sport development. However, in national sport archery, there was lot of turnover happened. Unfortunately, this athletes’ turnover leads to issues of maintaining t he performance. factor such as athletes’ satisfaction and motivation have significant influence on athletes’ performance. The objective of this study is to examine th e mediating effect of self-satisfaction in the relationship of intrinsic motivation and performance. Results indicate that self-satisfaction mediates the relationship. This research contributes in term of methodology where using both SPSS and PLS3.0 in determining the performance difference and relationshi p of the variables. Finally, the information in this research can give some guidelines and framework on how coaches can treat their athletes to improve the interact ion and facilitate training session effectively.
