A comparative study of competitive state anxiety level between female yoga players and archery players

Abstract

The present study was to find out to compare competitive state anxiety level between female yoga players and archery players. The total numbers of forty (40) subjects were selected through purposive random sampling method for this study. In this research, the CSAI-2 questionnaire (scale) was used to measure competitive state anxiety consist three components namely cognitive state anxiety, somatic state anxiety and self-confidence. This study shows that Anxiety is required to measure the performance during competition. To analyses the data ‘t’ test method was applied. It was found that there was no significance difference between female of yoga and archery players on self-confidence but there was a significance difference between female of yoga and archery players on cognitive state anxiety and somatic state anxiety.