Lifestyle affects the pre-competitive state anxiety: Study on male and female basketball players

Abstract

The current research aims to study the effect of quality of life on pre-competitive state anxiety of 100 basketball players (50 male and 50 female players) from various colleges of Amritsar, Punjab, India. The tool used to measure quality of life was Lifestyle scale (LSS-BK) by S.K Bawa and pre-competitive state anxiety was measured through competitive state anxiety inventory-2 (CSAI -2) by Martens et.al. Results indicates that male have shown no relationship between lifestyle scale and competitive state anxiety inventory- 2 whereas females have shown significantly negative relationship between somatic state anxiety and health conscious lifestyle and career oriented lifestyle.