Measurement of competitive sports anxiety between university level basketball & football players

Abstract

Anxiety is a common affair in day to day life and the sports arena is also not get untouched with the effect of that whether the person is official, coaches or athletes. The purpose of this study was to find out the competition anxiety level. To serve the purpose of the study 60 male university level players, 30 from basketball and 30 from football team of SRMUH was selected. As the both games involve lot of effort and endurance with skills so the study was hypothesised that there will be no significant difference between the competition anxiety levels of the participants. To collect the data SCAT was used. T-test with the help of SPSS was found out to compare the means of the data. Significance level was set to 0.05 for the study. The result concluded that p>.05 hence there was no significant difference between the basketball and football players of SRMUH competition anxiety level.