“The responsibility as England’s kicker does scare me. I worry all the time about it, but the important thing is that I know I can worry about it. It's not a bad thing, or a detrimental thing, to worry. As long as when I go to take the kick, my routine is there, and my visualization, I can be as fearful as I like and think: ‘I’m really, really concerned about this’. But as long as everything is in place, the ball will go where you want it to”. (Wilkinson, 2003, p. 47)
This quote from Johnny Wilkinson, the England Rugby Union team’s goalkicker, illustrates that anxiety related to sports, popularly known as competitive anxiety, does exist and has a significant impact (both positive and negative) on performance. Competitive anxiety can be thus …show more content…
cognitive anxiety is characterized by “conscious awareness of unpleasant feelings or external stimuli, worry, disturbing visual images”. In sport, cognitive anxiety is most commonly manifested by negative performance, expectations and thus negative self evaluation. Somatic anxiety refers to the physiological and affective elements of anxiety that developed directly from autonomic arousal. Somatic anxiety manifests itself in such responses as rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, clammy hands, butterflies in the stomach and tense muscles. Although cognitive and somatic anxiety are hypothesized to be conceptually independent, Morris et al (1981) have noted that they are likely to covary in stressful situations because these situations contain elements related to the arousal of each. Thus, it can be said that cognitive anxiety manifests itself in terms of psychological symptoms of competitive anxiety and somatic anxiety manifests itself in terms of physiological/physical symptoms of competitive …show more content…
23 respondents were from team sports and 31 from individual sports. All the respondents are residents of Mumbai city.
The tool used was a questionnaire consisting of 20 close ended statements wherein 4 statements were borrowed from the Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT; Martens, 1990) and the remaining were self-constructed. The questionnaire also consists of one self-constructed open ended question. The rating scale is a 5-point likert scale (1-Very often, 2-Often, 3-Sometimes, 4-Rarely, 5-Very rarely).
The 20 item questionnaire with one open ended question was constructed and administered to 54 respondents after obtaining their consent. The respondents were given clear instructions regarding the manner in which they may respond. For instance, they were requested to be as honest as possible. They were ensured that their personal information and their responses would remain confidential. The data was collected in one sitting itself, with the respondents taking about 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire. This data was collected from different training centers across the city of
This quote from Johnny Wilkinson, the England Rugby Union team’s goalkicker, illustrates that anxiety related to sports, popularly known as competitive anxiety, does exist and has a significant impact (both positive and negative) on performance. Competitive anxiety can be thus …show more content…
cognitive anxiety is characterized by “conscious awareness of unpleasant feelings or external stimuli, worry, disturbing visual images”. In sport, cognitive anxiety is most commonly manifested by negative performance, expectations and thus negative self evaluation. Somatic anxiety refers to the physiological and affective elements of anxiety that developed directly from autonomic arousal. Somatic anxiety manifests itself in such responses as rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, clammy hands, butterflies in the stomach and tense muscles. Although cognitive and somatic anxiety are hypothesized to be conceptually independent, Morris et al (1981) have noted that they are likely to covary in stressful situations because these situations contain elements related to the arousal of each. Thus, it can be said that cognitive anxiety manifests itself in terms of psychological symptoms of competitive anxiety and somatic anxiety manifests itself in terms of physiological/physical symptoms of competitive …show more content…
23 respondents were from team sports and 31 from individual sports. All the respondents are residents of Mumbai city.
The tool used was a questionnaire consisting of 20 close ended statements wherein 4 statements were borrowed from the Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT; Martens, 1990) and the remaining were self-constructed. The questionnaire also consists of one self-constructed open ended question. The rating scale is a 5-point likert scale (1-Very often, 2-Often, 3-Sometimes, 4-Rarely, 5-Very rarely).
The 20 item questionnaire with one open ended question was constructed and administered to 54 respondents after obtaining their consent. The respondents were given clear instructions regarding the manner in which they may respond. For instance, they were requested to be as honest as possible. They were ensured that their personal information and their responses would remain confidential. The data was collected in one sitting itself, with the respondents taking about 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire. This data was collected from different training centers across the city of