A comparative study of sports anxiety among netball and volleyball players

Abstract

“Competition is a social process that occurs when reward are given to people on the basis of how their performance compare with the performance of other doing the same task or participating on the same event” (Coakley, 1994). “Anxiety is a negative emotional state in which feeling of nervousness, worry, and apprehension is associated with activation or arousal of the body.”(Robert S Weinberg & Daniel Gould, 2007). The purpose of the study was comparing the Sports Competition Anxiety between Volleyball and Netball male players. The subjects for this study were (N=70) male were 35 each from Volleyball and Netball male players and age ranged from 18 to 25 years. The sample was selected through Purposive Radom Sampling from the pool of players playing Volleyball and Netball under Karnatak University Dharwad. For the Acquisition of Sports Competitive Anxiety Questionnaire developed by Martin (1990) was used to collect the data of the study. The independent’t’ test was used to analyze data. The findings of the study revealed that there is no significant difference was found between Volleyball male players and Netball male players in their Sports Competition Anxiety.