2024, Vol. 11, Issue 3, Part A

Methods: For the purpose of the study, sixty (60) male boxers of various district of Arunachal Pradesh was purposively selected with the age of sub-junior ranging from 12 and 14 with mean age (13.03±0.93) and junior ranging from 15 and 16 with mean age (15.7±0.79) were selected purposively. The research was carried out during the state level championship in order to measure the sports competition anxiety test (SCAT) questionnaire by Marten e.i, was applied to measure the competitive state anxiety. Z-test was applied to find the significance difference between the junior and sub-junior boxers of Arunachal Pradesh. The level of significance was set at 0.05, in order to test the hypothesis.

Results and Discussion: The study's findings show that there was a significant difference between the sub-junior and junior boxers (p<0.05) as the null hypothesis is rejected at 0.05 level of significance.