A study of sports competition anxiety of national level female volleyball players

Abstract

Profiling is a valuable technique in sports which is used to identify the characteristic of an athlete so that training program is organized for the preparation and the development of a player that can provide important information to the athlete, which helps to implement realistic goal setting strategies and exploit their intrinsic motivation. Psychological profiling is a scientific process to record the psychological characteristics of an individual to analyze in order to assess the abilities which denotes the psychological status or well being. The study was selected to analyze the Psychological Profiling of National Level Female Volleyball Players. It was conducted on hundred nation level female volleyball players. The players were delimited to national level players of North India. The variables studied was Sports Competition Anxiety. The collection of data was analyzed on the criterion measures viz. Sports Competitive Anxiety Test (SCAT) developed by Martens, Vealey and Burton (1990). Mean scores and standard deviation were calculated in order to study sports competition anxiety. The age of the players ranged from 17 to 25 years. Player’s profiles have been discussed in terms of each player’s relative standing on each psychological variable. To standardize the test, mean and standard deviation of each variable were calculated viz. sports competition anxiety 19.64 + 2.57. It is very clear that female volleyball players were tensed at the time of competition.