“…Athletes completed a Brazilian-Portuguese version (Coelho, Vasconcelos-Raposo, & Mahl, 2010) of the original CSAI-2 (Martens et al, 1990) that included the direction and Downloaded by [Chinese University of Hong Kong] at 05:01 26 December 2014 the frequency response dimensions. This instrument consists of 27 items measuring three dimensions: cognitive anxiety (Items 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, and 25), somatic anxiety ( Items 2,5,8,11,14,17,20,23,and 26) and self-confidence ( Items 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,and 27).…”