A study of pre and post-competitive anxiety level of inter-university basketball players

Singh, Alka

doi:10.17485/ijst/2011/v4i6.8

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“…Both the gender groups fell in "optimum anxiety" level as per the classification in the test manual. These findings support those of Singh (1988).…”

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Anxiety among Track And Field Athlete

Singh¹,

Kumar²

2012

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Sports performance, like any other type of human performance, is a highly complex process and a product of several internal and external factors encompassing all the aspects of human personality and to achieve excellence in it, it is becoming more and more significant to identify and utilize the psychological factors that are particularly important in sports settings, specially those related to athletic performance. Anxiety is one psychological factor, which plays crucial role in the final outcome of all the sports encounters. It is being explored incessantly in different sports settings, regarding different sports groups and at different levels. Through the present study, an attempt has been made to investigate the same among the national level track and field athletes. Subject (N-286) was athletes who had participated at 63 rd Inter University athletic championship which was held at Gulbarga University, Gulbarga form 16 th to 21 st January, 2003. The sample consisted of 150 male and 136 female athletes. Similarly, there were 144 athletes form successful group and 142 form unsuccessful category. In all 122 were form Northern region and 164 from Southern region. The age group of 18 to 25 years studying at the college and university levels. To collect the data "Sinha"s Comprehensive Anxiety Test (1995)" was administered to measure state and trait anxiety and "Marten"s Inventory (1977)" was administered to measure the sports competition anxiety. Results regarding the state and trait anxiety indicated that the female group of athletes was more anxious as compare to male counterpart. The interaction effect between region and gender as well as between performance and gender were found significant. The athletes form Northern region, unsuccessful as well as female groups were higher level of sports competition anxiety as compared to athletes from southern r egion, successful and male groups respectively. Interaction between region and performance only was found significant. Any other results were not found significant.

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“…Both the gender groups fell in "optimum anxiety" level as per the classification in the test manual. These findings support those of Singh (1988).…”

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Anxiety among Track And Field Athlete

Singh¹,

Kumar²

2012

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“…The data for this research were collected from August to October 2022. Our values are similar to the results obtained before the pandemic, when the mean values for archers' and shooters' competitive anxiety were 20.90 and 23.50 (Singh et al, 2019).…”

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Cross-cultural comparison of sports anxiety among Indian and Polish sports players in a post-COVID world: a pilot study

Rawat,

Błachnio

2024

Health Psychology Report

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BackgroundThere is a need for cross-cultural research on the relationship between competitive anxiety, BMI, and sports training fre-quency in athletes. Especially in a post-COVID-19 world, adverse changes associated with weight gain and increased seden-tary lifestyles have been observed. Whether this trend occurs in athletes and how BMI and frequency of sports training af-fect anxiety levels in Polish and Indian athletes are the subjects of this study.Participants and procedureOne hundred athletes were successfully recruited in India (n = 50, gender-balanced), and in Poland (n = 50, gender-balanced). Their age ranged from 18 to 30 (Indian athletes: M = 23.65, SD = 2.75; Polish athletes: M = 23.50, SD = 3.27). The level of competitive anxiety was measured using the Sports Anxiety Scale-2. Respondents were asked about demographics along with weight, height, and frequency of training. A t-test was used to compare the total anxiety score, subscale scores, and BMI between the Indian and Polish samples. A two-factor ANOVA with repeated measures was administered to evaluate the interaction between Indian and Polish athletes’ trait anxiety and BMI. Moreover, the interaction between Indian and Polish athletes’ BMI and frequency of sports training was also tested.ResultsThe results showed that there was a significant difference between the anxiety levels of Indian and Polish athletes t(73.41) = –4.28, p < .001. The interaction between BMI and total anxiety score between Polish and Indian sports players was significant (p = .001). However, no statistically significant interaction was found between frequency of sports training and BMI.ConclusionsThe anxiety levels are higher due to higher BMI. These adverse changes in the behavioural area and their effects on physical health also concern young athletes. Further research is necessary to assess the late impact of the pandemic on the lives of athletes as these costs are accompanied by many others localized in the psychological sphere, which are only becoming apparent.

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“…Additionally, there exists a direct correlation between the player's self-confidence and his/her performance in sports ( 20 , 21 ). Once the competition is over, athletes from different sports such as football, basketball and volleyball show lower levels of competitive anxiety than moments prior to the event ( 22 – 24 ). The same happened to taekwondo athletes, who also showed higher levels of self-confidence at this stage ( 25 ).…”

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Pre and post-competitive anxiety and self-confidence and their relationship with technical-tactical performance in high-level men's padel players

Conde-Ripoll,

Escudero-Tena,

Bustamante-Sánchez

2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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IntroductionThis study aimed to analyze the variations in pre- and post-competitive anxiety and self-confidence considering match outcomes, the performance according to the result and the correlation among performance and psychological variables.MethodsThe sample consisted on 12 matches in which 11 high-level padel players from Finland (top 24) voluntarily participated. CSAI-2R and STAI-S were used to assess psychological variables and technical-tactical performance was evaluated by a certified padel coach.ResultsLosing players presented higher cognitive (p = .004), somatic (p = .020) and state (p = .001) anxiety and lower selfconfidence (p = .014), and winning players showed higher state anxiety (p = .022), after than before the matches. Post-match, winning players exhibited higher self-confidence (p = .015) than losing players. Winning players made more winners (p = .010) than losing players. There are direct correlations between unforced errors and post-state anxiety (p = .015), unforced errors and state anxiety (p = .009) and winners and cognitive anxiety (p = .033), in winning players; between generators of forced error and post-cognitive anxiety (p = .034), forced errors and cognitive anxiety in losing players (p = .001). There are indirect correlations between forced errors and pre-cognitive anxiety (p = .009), winners and somatic anxiety (p = .046), unforced errors and state anxiety (p = .042) in losing players.DiscussionThe outcomes imply the need for intervention programs to equip players, especially those facing defeat, with tools for anxiety management and self-confidence enhancement. Likewise, coaches are advised to incorporate exercises that promote the occurrence of winners.

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A study of pre and post-competitive anxiety level of inter-university basketball players

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Anxiety among Track And Field Athlete

Anxiety among Track And Field Athlete

Cross-cultural comparison of sports anxiety among Indian and Polish sports players in a post-COVID world: a pilot study

Pre and post-competitive anxiety and self-confidence and their relationship with technical-tactical performance in high-level men's padel players

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