Abstract
In the sports, psychological and physiological factors play an important role in determining the performance level. Present paper intends to study the impact of sports motivation & locus of control on athlete’s competitive anxiety. For the purpose of this study, a specific sample of 191 athletes from individual games (watersports, athletics, wushu, judo, taekwondo, boxing) was selected from sports authority India, central region center, Bhopal. Random sampling is used for selecting the participants. Sport Competition Anxiety Test (Martens 1977), Sport Motivation Scale (SMS) and Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale were administered for data collection. The statistical analysis of data was done via linear correlation using Pearson’s method and Multivariate stepwise regression. Result shows that the external locus of control was positively significantly predicting highly competitive anxiety in athletes.no significant relationship found between the construct internal locus of control and competitive anxiety, and also no significant relationship found between intrinsic motivation and competitive anxiety.
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