Sports Future Anxiety and its Relationship with Causal Attribution Types among some Combat Athletes

Abstract

The Analytical approach maintains that anxiety is a warning signal of danger that is, letting out the pent-up emotions from the unconsciousness to the consciousness, which, In turn, urges the Ego's defences to face this danger (17). The Behaviourists, however, consider anxiety as an acquired/learned behaviour from the environment in which a person lives in terms of positive and negative reinforcements. Behaviourists do not believe in the unconscious motives, but they explain anxiety in terms of action-response classical conditioning, that is, the association of a new motive with an old one. The new motive becomes able to recall the old motive's response (7). This means that anxiety is an acquired, conditioned response of fear; and the individual is unaware of its normal, original impetus (6). Whereas Humanists see anxiety as fear of the future, and that each future event bears a threat to one's existence and humanity. Anxiety stems from what an individual expects to happen and not from the individual's past (6).