A comparative study of will to win and sport competition anxiety of university level gymnasts

Abstract

The aim of present study is to compare the university level gymnasts with regard to their will to win and sport competition anxiety. To accomplish the study, purposive sampling technique has been used. The sample of the study has been selected from the All India inter University gymnastic (M & W) Championship held at Panjab University Chandigarh from 1th to 5th Feb. 2017. For this purpose, fourty two university level gymnasts which included twenty one high performer and twenty one low performer male gymnasts were selected as subjects. The selected subjects were between the age group of 17 to 25 years. Will to win questionnaire developed by Kumar and Shukla (1988) was applied to measure the level of will to win and to measure the level of sport competition Anxiety (SCAT, developed by Martens et al. (1990) was used. To find out the difference in the level of will to win and sport competition anxiety independent sample‘t’ test was applied through Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) version 20.0. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The result of the present study shows that no significant difference was found in the level of win to win and sport competition anxiety of high performer and low performer university level gymnasts.