A Neural Network Model for the Correlation between Sprinters' Pre-competition Anxiety and Competition Performance

Jiwei Yao,Yongliang Yang,Wenxin Xu,Xiushi Ding,Xiang Xie

doi:10.19026/rjaset.6.4037

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https://doi.org/10.19026/rjaset.6.4037

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Abstract

Sprint is an important sporting event in track and field competition, in which, athletes’ pre-competition anxiety will greatly affect them in bringing into play their competence, which will then influence their final performance in the competition. For this reason, to study the correlation between sprinters’ pre-competition anxiety and their competition performance is of great significance in predicting athletes’ performance under difference anxiety state. After having analyzed domestic and foreign research achievements related with sport anxiety and sport performance, the study further applied CSAI-2 (1994) questionnaire to investigate athletes’ anxiety in sprint competition of a university sports meeting in Changsha. Moreover, based on neural network model, the study also constructed related models concerning athletes’ pre-competition anxiety and their competition performance. In addition, related curves concerning athletes’ pre-competition anxiety and specific performance are also formulated.

Highlights

Track and field competition has always been regarded as “mother of sports”, for it is the foundation for the other sporting events (John and Paul, 1993)
Good and positive psychological states are helpful for athletes to outdo their normal competence, so as to take on very strong explosive force
According to the construction procedures of ordinary neural network model, the neural network model constructed in this study was implemented via two steps: the first step is to determine the structure of neural network mode; the second step is to learn sprinters’ pre-competition anxiety training samples with dynamic back propagation algorithm, so as to figure out the final connection weight between pre-competition anxiety and specific performance

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Introduction

Track and field competition has always been regarded as “mother of sports”, for it is the foundation for the other sporting events (John and Paul, 1993). None of them have adopted the mature correlativity model, so that the result obtained is inadequate to construct the function for quantizing athletes’ pre-competition anxiety and competition performance.

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