Competitive Team Sports Research Articles

Competition trait anxiety in youth sport: differences according to age, sex, race and playing status.

Differences in competitive trait anxiety of 80 boy and 79 girl athletes participating in team-sport competition were examined on the basis of age, sex, race, and playing status (all star and playing substitute). While data did not show differences in sport competition trait anxiety according to age, sex, or race, all star athletes had significantly lower anxiety scores than playing substitutes.

Sex Differences in the Aspects of Team Sport Participation Viewed as Enjoyable

Eight situations dealing with team sports were described to 63 male and 63 female undergraduates. Each situation depicted a team competition involving same-sex members, and subjects were told specifically about the affiliation, acquaintance, and skill of one of the participants. Subjects indicated how enjoyable they viewed each of the eight sports situations, how many years they had participated in team sports, and how much experience they had in team sport competition. The results suggested that men and women similarly enjoyed aspects of team sport participation that improved their chances of winning and interacting cooperatively with friends, but men seemed to enjoy the ego-challenging aspects of team sports more than women.

Early Team Sports Competition and Graduate Students' Fear of Success

Early Team Sports Competition and Graduate Students' Fear of Success

THE VALUE OF SPORT AS A RECREATION IN PARAPLEGIA

On an afternoon in 1944, an able-bodied man attempted to move about in a wheel chair and, using the curved handle of a walking stick as a mallet, to hit a ball and chase after it, at the same time endeavouring to prevent his opponent in a wheel chair from counteracting his movements. The man was Dr. Ludwig Guttmann; the activity was later to become wheel-chair polo and from his simple experiment was born the idea of competitive team sport for paraplegics. Two decades later in Tokyo, paralyzed men and women from twenty-three nations competed in sports demanding of their patiently trained bodies skill, strength, speed and endurance. This was the occasion of the 1964 International Games for the Paralyzed. Paraplegic sport is a success story and the history of its growth of great interest.