Author(s): Anjan Kumar Biswas, Dr. Mahesh Sawata Khetmalis and Sourabh Lahiri

Abstract:
A study was conducted to assess the influence of competitive anxiety on sports participation at national level among cricketers and badminton players. To reveal the study, Sports Competitive Anxiety Test (SCAT) Questionnaire’ developed by Martens, Vealey, R. S. and Burton, D (1990) to measure the level of anxiety in the players who participate in the School National competitions. The test was administered on randomly selected samples, total of 60 players were selected for the study, 30 cricketers and 30 shuttlers with an age range of 13-19 years who participated in School National Championships, the data collected was analyzed by applying t- test and mean score of cricketers and shuttlers. From the above study it has been found that the mean value of cricketers and shuttlers are 17.13 and 17.90 respectively at 0.5 level significant, hence the results showed that some cricketers are having a slight low sports competitive anxiety than the shuttlers, but overall there was no such big difference observed in the study.

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