Author(s): Dr. Sushil Kumar and Dr. Hoshiyar Singh

Abstract:
Anxiety is an arousal state of mind which has both negative and positive effects on sports performance. The aim of present study was explore the difference of sports competition anxiety among Football players of middle adolescent and late adolescent group. For the purpose of the study 30 middle adolescent and 30 late adolescent Football players (boys) selected from district team of Meerut. The age of the subjects ranged from 14 to 17 years and 18 to 21 years respectively. To examine the comparison of competition anxiety between players of two different psychological (growth and developmental) stages, competition anxiety questionnaire (SCAT) was used, developed by Rainer Marten. To analyzed the raw scores and "t test" were computed. The result shows that Middle Adolescent and Late Adolescent players differ significantly from each other and late adolescents are found more anxious than middle adolescents in this study has found by the "t test" at 0.05 level of significance.

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