Competitive state anxiety in male & female university basketball players

Abstract

This study was designed to examine the level of competitive state anxiety among south zone university basketball players.Three components of anxiety i.e., the level of cognitive, somatic anxiety and selfconfidence were assessed between the genders.The samples include 50 male and 50 female basketball players between the ages of 18 to 25 years from various universities in South India.Anxiety was measured using the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2) by Martens et al.The results indicated that there was significant difference according to cognitive and somatic anxiety between male and female.And also it revealed that there was no significant difference in self-confidence between the genders.Recommendations for future research were also discussed.\