Compratative Stady on Pre-Competition Anxiety between National and State Level Women Athletes

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out pre-competition anxiety between national and state level women athletes. Due to the fact that during competition athletes' mental state greatly affects their stamina explosion, which finally influence the result of final competition. Anxiety in sports is considered as an important issue for many athletes. It refers to a sort of nervous and fear emotion formed by frustration of self-esteem and self- confidence, or increasing of the sense of failure and guilty, which is resulted by the threat from being unable to achieve goals or to overcome obstacles at the right time. For the purpose of the study the subjects were selected randomly from 63 rd State Athletic Championships of West Bengal to measure the pre-competition anxiety by a questionnaire Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) developed by Rainer Marten. 25 national level and 25 state level women athletes selected randomly from the said Athletic Championships. To find out pre-competition anxiety between national level and state level women athletes 't' test was applied. The result showed that there was significant difference on pre-competition anxiety between national level and state level women athletes. The national level women athletes had less pre-competition anxiety than the state level women athletes.