RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & PAKISTAN SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (PSSR) adheres to Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. The authors submitting and publishing in PSSR agree to the copyright policy under creative common license 4.0 (Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license). Under this license, the authors published in PSSR retain the copyright including publishing rights of their scholarly work and agree to let others remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially. All other authors using the content of PSSR are required to cite author(s) and publisher in their work. Therefore, RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & PAKISTAN SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (PSSR) follow an Open Access Policy for copyright and licensing.
How to Cite
A Study on Pre-and Post-Competition State Anxiety among the Athletes
Abstract
This study investigates and evaluates before and after competitive anxiety, self-confidence, and performance of the athletes. The Cognitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 was administered to collect data from 73 athletes, both men and women, before and after the competition. The paired t-test was used to find the significant difference between the pre and post competition. Results showed that the levels of cognitive condition of anxiety before the competition were low as compared after the competition and the levels of somatic state anxiety before the competition was high as compared after the competition, whereas the levels of self-confidence before the competition were high as compared after the competition. This study concludes that the levels of cognitive state anxiety increase after the competition as athletes could not perform according to the performance expectations; on the contrary, the levels of somatic anxiety decrease as there was no pressure of performance on the athletes after the competition and the levels of self-confidence decrease after the competition as athletes could not reach their desired performance levels.
Authors
Mehwish Manzoor
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Physical Education, University of Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan
Rehana Parveen
Govt. E/Shasti Waladullewala Darya Khan, Pakistan
Saira Yaqoob
Gomal University D.I. Khan, KPK, Pakistan
Keywords
Anxiety, Athletes, Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2, Performance, Self-Confidence
