Investigation of State and Trait Anxiety of 13-16 Age Badminton Players

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the state and trait anxiety of 13-16 years old badminton players. 72 female and 73 male players with a mean age of 14.44±1.12 constitute the sample of this study participated in the U-17 badminton championships organized by the Badminton Federation of Turkey. State and Trait anxiety inventory developed by Spielberg in 1976 and adapted to Turkish by Öner and Le Compte were used as data collection tools. The data obtained were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows package software. While independent sample t-test and One-Way ANOVA tests are used in the analysis of the data; Pearson correlation coefficient was examined to look at the relationship between the data. As a result, while the participants' state and trait anxiety levels and age, sports year, mother education level, father education level and monthly income level variables could not be determined; there was a significant relationship between state anxiety levels and gender. It was found that anxiety levels of male participants were higher than those of females.

The Investigation of History of Sports Injury and the Level of Anxiety of Sports Injury in Elite Wrestlers: Descriptive Research

“…However, similar study findings showed that the losing athletic ability sub-dimension, and the re-injury sub-dimension increased as the higher age of training experience. 13,26 Another study conducted by Kayhan et al stated that athletes who had the range of 4 and 6 years of sports experience, had a higher mean of the being perceived sub-dimension as weak compared to athletes who participated in sports for more than 10 years. 8 The reason for the difference between our study's findings and literature may be derived from sports type and age mean.…”

“…The literature studies related to anxiety indicated no significant differences in the re-injury anxiety sub-dimension between the genders, the athletes who engaged individual and team sports, and the badminton players under the age of seventeen. 26,28,29 Tanyeri reported that the anxiety levels of male athletes, including losing athletic ability, letting others down, losing social support in sub-dimension, had higher compared to female athletes, but the other sub-dimensions were not similar levels. In view of this, the results inconsistent with each other generally were seen in literature studies, some researchers stated that there weren't significant differences in injury anxiety sub-dimension, and some researchers also reported the males had higher anxiety scores.…”