Volume : 6, Issue : 7, July - 2017

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMPETITIVE STATE ANXIETY OF NATIONAL KORFBALL PLAYERS

Sandhya Banik, Kalpana Sharma

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Aim</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">: A study was done to compare the means of competitive state anxiety level of the male participants of eight different teams. <b>Methods</b>: A </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">quantitative research was done based on purposive sampling included</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> 1st</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> Indian Korfball League participants. <b>Methods</b>: Total 64 male participants&rsquo; aged between 18-35 years</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">of eight teams those who had qualified for the leagues for further competition were taken as subjects</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">. In this research, the CSAI-2 questionnaire (likert scale) was used as a tool, which was given 45min. prior to competition to measure competitive state anxiety which had three sub-scales namely cognitive state anxiety, somatic state anxiety and self-confidence. <b>Statistical procedure: </b>Statistical procedure was done through descrip</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">tive statistics, Levene&rsquo;s homogeneity test of variance, </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">one-way anova and Tukey&rsquo;s HSD post-hoc test with the help of SPSS version 23 at p&lt;0.05. <b>Results</b>: Cronbach&rsquo;s Reliability Coefficient (0.600) was reported to be at acceptable value and teams exhibited medium level of competitive state anxiety, F (7, 63) = 26.77, p&lt;0.01. Significant difference was found between the eight teams on Cognitive State Anxiety.&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>