The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of sport competition trait anxiety among volleyball players. To meet this purpose, 468 subjects were recruited, 119 drawn from middle school players, 159 from high school players, 81 from universi...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of sport competition trait anxiety among volleyball players. To meet this purpose, 468 subjects were recruited, 119 drawn from middle school players, 159 from high school players, 81 from university players, and 109 from professional team players. Among them, 196 subjects were female, and 272 subjects were male. The age range of the subject was from 14 years old to 32.
Marten's Sport Competition Anxiety Test(SCAT) was applied to the whale subject to measure their competition trait anxiety. The data gathered were analyzed by t-test and ANOVA after sorted by gender, grade, length of playing experience, position, and team performance level.
The results were as follows :
1. The anxiety level of female players were higher than that of male players in all groups of the middle school, high school, and professional team.
2. High school players showed the highest level of anxiety when compared to the other groups.
3. The more experienced a player was, the more lowered his/her anxiety level was.
4. There was no significant difference among subject groups as for the anxiety level according to position.
5. There was no significant difference among subject groups as for the anxiety level according to team performance level.
Based on the above results, it was suggested that future studies empirically examine the effect of an anxiety reduction training on adolescents' performance.