The purpose of this study was to investigate the change of competitive anxiety level following to technical level, sex and specific times before plays of tennis players.
This study selected 64 male and female players(male 31, female 33 / superior g...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the change of competitive anxiety level following to technical level, sex and specific times before plays of tennis players.
This study selected 64 male and female players(male 31, female 33 / superior group 31, inferior group 33 persons) who participated in the 1st Nassau tennis tournament and used CSAI-2 questionnaires developed by Martens to measure cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confidence.
After then, this study checked them by 5-step time-to-even paradigm including one-week, 2 days, one day and 2 hours before play, which was applied by Jones, Swain and Cyale, This study carried out repetitive analysis of variance by using SPSS statistical program to test the difference of competitive anxiety by sex, technical level and time.
The results are as follows:
1. There wasn't any significant difference between superior players and inferior players of cognitive anxiety and somatic anxiety. At self-confidence, superior players are significantly higher than inferior players.
2. There wasn't any significant difference between superior players and inferior players at cognitive anxiety, self-confidence in male players.
3. There wasn't any significant difference between superior players and inferior players at cognitive anxiety, self-confidence in female players.
4. The cognitive anxiety and somatic anxiety by time were increased in all the players including superior and inferior players when the play was coming. Otherwise there wasn't any difference between superior and inferior players.
In conclusion, the difference of competitive anxiety among players divided to the superior and the inferior by technical level was not significant, these results could be suggested that personal fitness, capacity of training, effort were more influent to victory and defeat of plays than mental competitive anxiety.