Author(s): Dr. Vijay Singh

Abstract:
Anxiety is one the many psychology aspects that influence players during competition. It is proved in previous researches that anxiety clearly affects the performance and the individual reaction to its outcome. The purpose of the present study was to assess the Sports Competition Anxiety among national level Boxers and to examine differences in Sports Competition Anxiety among male and female Sub-Junior Boxers. The sample for this research were 24 (12 males and 12 females) National level Boxers from the States of Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, and West Bengal. Martens’ Sports Competition Anxiety Test (1977) was used to measures the Sports Competition Anxiety of all the subjects of this study. The data collected from the subjects were statistically analyzed for difference if any, by applying’ test. The result reveals that the Boxers of both categories showed normal range of Sports Competition Anxiety. This study also indicated that male Boxers have low Sports Competition Anxiety than female Boxers the ‘t’ value of Sports Competition Anxiety 3.45 is found significant at 0.01 level.

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