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Relationships between competitive anxiety, physiological and behavioural measures of stress reaction among athletes 2012 http://ezaposleni.singidunum.ac.rs/rest/sciNaucniRezultati/oai/record/1/5042 M. Nikolić V. Kitanović T. Ćirković LJ. Bačanac Introduction Studies in the field of sport psychology showed that the anxiety trait and state, different stress responses and coping mechanisms can influence performance of athletes. Stress reaction can be measured in 3 response modalities: performance (behavioural measure), self – report measures and physiological reactions. The aim of this study was to identify relationships between physiological responses to stressful situations, self-report measures of competitive state anxiety and performance in stressful situations. Method One hundred and nine subjects, 24 female and 85 male athletes, with an average age of 21,6±4.6 participated in the study. The variables which were measured in this research were: self-report measure of competitive anxiety operacionalised through SCAT-c questionaire (Bačanac, 1989), physiological reactions: changes in skin conductance, heart rate, breathing and muscle tension after introducing cognitive and emotional stress, and behavioural measure: quality of performance (number of errors made during cognitive assignement). Physiological reactions were measured by Biofeedback Biograph infinity 5.0. instrument. Correlations analysis was conducted in SPSS 17.0 software. Results The results reveal two statistically significant correlations: between frequency of breathing during emotional stress and competitive anxiety (r=.336, p<.01) and between skin conductance during cognitive stress and number of errors during cognitive stress (r=-.202, p<.05). Athletes who reported higher level of competitive anxiety, had higher frequency of breathing during emotional stress (imagining stressful situation) compared to the frequency of breathing before the introducing of emotional stress. The athletes who had larger increasing in skin conductance during the cognitive stress, had less errors during the cognitive assignment Conclusion The results of the study showed that there were significant correlations between 3 modalities of stress responses: self-report, physiological and performance measures. Linking 3 modalities of stress responses measures revealed that relationships between them are not simple. That information could be useful in everyday work with athletes, since it allows us to predict athletes’ performance in stressful, competitive situations and developing individualized programs of their psychological preparation. Key words Anxiety, stress, skin conductance, heart rate, respiration rate conferenceObject International scientific conference “Еffects of physical activity application to anthropological status with children, youth and adults“