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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Competitive Anxiety"”.
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The effect of meditation on anxiety in sport
… can manage both components of multidimensional competitive state anxiety, as well as state self-confidence in sport. According to writers in Buddhist meditation (Buddhathasa, 1990; Sekida, 1975; Vajiranana, 1975), the Buddhist techniques are claimed to relax the body and mind together. If that …
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Investigating a causal model of anxiety in sport
… the Martens, Vealey, and Burton (1990) model of competitive anxiety. In experiment one, perceived uncertainty of outcome, one of three hypothesised causes of state anxiety (A-state), was manipulated by assigning 72 golfers to either a low uncertainty group (LU), composed of unequal ability pairs, …
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Investigating Life Stress Competitive Trait Anxiety and Competitive State Anxiety with Athletic Injury Occurrence in NCAA Division I Athletes.
… study examined the relationship of life stress, competitive trait anxiety and competitive state anxiety, with injury occurrence in NCAA Division I athletic teams. Life stress was measured by the Life Events Survey for Collegiate Athletes. The Competitive State Anxiety Test and Marten’s Sport …
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Using imagery to predict self-confidence and anxiety in young elite athletes
… studies investigating how imagery is related to competitive anxiety and self-confidence in young elite athletes (c.f, Vadocz et al., 1997). The purpose of this study was to examine how much imagery use predicts self-confidence and anxiety in young elite athletes through the development of a more …
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A Comparative Analysis of Cognitive Differences Among Female Elite and Nonelite High School Field Hockey Players and High School Physical Education Class Nonathletes
… skills relevant to exceptional performance, and competitive anxiety. Analyses included multivariate analysis of variance for each cognitive category, one way univariate analysis of variance for each subtest within a cognitive category, and a stepwise multiple regression technique to determine …
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The Effects of Mental Skills Training on Serve Accuracy of an Intercollegiate Volleyball Team
… was .49 (SD = .07); the team GSP goal was .50. Competitive anxiety was negatively correlated with GSP (r = -.68,p < .05). Results indicate that implementing the mental skills training program was associated with increased serve performance.
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The relationship between socioeconomic status and competitive sport anxiety in youth
… relationship between socioeconomic status and competitive sport anxiety in youth athletes. The Multidimensional Anxiety Theory served as the conceptual framework for this study. Participants included 62 youth athletes from an affluent and a middle class socioeconomic background defined by …
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Anthropometry, physical fitness, and psychological factors among Icelandic elite female basketball players
… skills, mental toughness, and competition anxiety in Icelandic elite female basketball players according to their age group; (3) and to analyse the relationship between anthropometry, physical fitness and psychological factors (psychological skills, competitive anxiety and mental toughness) …
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Performance attributes of talented schoolboy Australian Rules Football players
… The selected psychological characteristics were competitive anxiety (trait and state), competitive sport orientation (competitiveness, win and goal orientation) and sport confidence (trait and state). Performance was measured, first, by the selection or non selection of the player in the final …
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Anxiety and sport : time to ask what rather than why
Approaches to the study of anxiety in sport have tended to rely on the use of questionnaires to assess levels of competitive anxiety. The development of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (Martens et aI., 1982) has according to Jones (1995) led to considerable research investigating the …
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Examining a Three-Dimensional Model of Competitive State Anxiety in Sport
… it has been widely documented that experiencing competitive state anxiety does not always lead to performance impairments. Taking this into consideration,a three-dimensional model explaining the potential adaptive nature of anxiety was proposed by Cheng et al. (2009); however, little research has …