2024, Vol. 11, Issue 4, Part G
Sports competition anxiety between inter-college and inter-university female football players
Author(s): Dr. Baljinder Singh Bal
Abstract:The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of Sports Competition Anxiety between Inter-College and Inter-University Female Football Players. Fourty four (N=44) female aged 19-25 years participated in the study. Participants took part in the study voluntarily, and all subjects were also informed about the purpose and protocol of the study. The subjects were divided into two groups: Group-A: Inter-College Female Football Players: (N1=22) and Group-B: Inter-University Female Football Players: (N2=22). The Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT; Martens, 1977) to assess the effect of anxiety on the performance of athletes was used for the present study. In this study, convenience sampling, often called availability sampling, is a special non-probability sampling technique that relies on collecting data from people in the community who are readily available to participate in the study. Under the data analysis, exploration of data was made with descriptive statistics and graphical analysis. Unpaired t-test was employed for the present investigation. The SPSS (statistical package for the social sciences) version 20.0 was used for all analyses. For testing the hypotheses, the level of significance was set at 0.05. The calculated exceeds the critical value (7.6088>2.018), hence the means of Inter-College football Players and Inter-University football Players are significantly different at 0.05 level of significance regarding Sports Competition Anxiety.
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Dr. Baljinder Singh Bal. Sports competition anxiety between inter-college and inter-university female football players. Int J Phys Educ Sports Health 2024;11(4):396-400.