“…Competitive anxiety, in its turn, is indicated as a multifactorial construct relating to the behavior regarding the stress response and a tendency to perceive stressing situations (Fernandes, Nunes, Raposo, & Fernandes, 2014;Fernandes, Nunes, Raposo, Fernandes, & Brustad, 2013;Fortes, Lira, Lima, Almeida, & Ferreira, 2016). According to the Multidimensional Theory of Competitive State Anxiety (Martens, Vealey, & Burton, 1990), anxiety has three components: cognitive, somatic, and self-confidence.…”