Author(s): Dr. R Balamurugan, Dr. Madhanagopal and Dr. V Saminathan

Abstract:
Many researches and theories have shown a very strong relation between performance and anxiety level. Even experienced persons possess problems and their carriers affected. Every individual must have knowledge about his or her anxiety levels, especially sports persons. In this paper, the sport competition anxiety level of sport persons under different components have been studied, using non-probabilistic sampling technique wherein three hundred and fifty three sports persons from different games have been selected as sample from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Comparative analysis was carried out using univariate statistical techniques and the results revealed significant difference exists among age, experience in sports, type of sports and area of livelihood of the players with regards to anxiety levels and further sports persons belongs to track events, rural background, lower aged and inexperience are much affected by competition anxiety.

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