Study and Comparison of Competitive Anxiety of Female Athletes in Team and Individual Sports
SOREN Student Sports & Health Open Researches e-Journal: New-Approaches,
Vol. 1 No. 1 (1399),
8 January 2021
,
Page 8-13
https://doi.org/10.22037/soren.v1i1.33148
Abstract
Background and aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the level of competitive anxiety of female athletes before and during the competition. Anxiety has several physiological and cognitive symptoms. It ultimately leads to low self-esteem and frustration.
Methods: The present study is a field-questionnaire and in order to achieve the above goal, 64 female athletes in the age group of 13-7 years were examined. In this study, the Competitive Anxiety Questionnaire (SCAT) was used.
Results: There was a significant difference between basketball and ping pong groups (p = 0.012). Comparing the average of these two groups, we find that the level of competitive anxiety in the ping pong group is higher than the basketball group. There is no significant difference between the basketball and control groups, meaning that both groups are anxious.
Conclusion: It can be concluded from the results that competitive anxiety in individual sports is more than team sports.
- competitive anxity
- team sport
- individual sport
- competitive anxity exercise scale
- sport performance
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