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Competitive state anxiety and Success of young orienteers
2010
796.034--‐053.2/.6(082)
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LJ. Bačanac
I. Juhas
Competitive
state
anxiety
level
is
an
indicator
of
physiological
and
psycho-‐
logical
excitation
athletes
before
the
competition.
Competitive
state
anxiety
is
situational
specific
multidimensional
construct
consisting
of
three
com-‐
ponents:
somatic
anxiety,
cognitive
anxiety
and
self-‐confidence.
Orienteer-‐
ing
is
a
highly
demanding
sport,
in
terms
of
cognitive
abilities,
and
it
is
un-‐
derstandable
to
expect
that
a
high
level
of
competitive
anxiety
can
have
negative
consequences
on
the
quality
of
the
competitive
performance
of
athletes,
because
it
violates
his
attention
and
concentration,
thinking
and
decision
making
processes.
The
aim
of
this
study
was
to
determine
whether
there
was
a
correlation
between
the
level
of
competitive
state
anxiety
be-‐
fore
competition
and
performance
in
the
competition
and
also
which
com-‐
ponent
of
state
anxiety
is
the
best
predictor
of
success.
Competitive
State
Anxiety
Inventory
(CSAI-‐2)
was
conducted
on
a
sample
of
54
young
athletes,
27
male
and
27
female
with
an
average
age
of
13
years
and
average
experi-‐
ence
in
orienteering
than
3
years
on
two
orienteering
events
of
national
level,
20
to
30
minutes
before
the
start.
The
results
showed
that
there
was
a
correlation
between
all
three
components
of
competitive
state
anxiety
and
performance
in
orienteering.
Correlation
between
competitive
achievement
and
cognitive
and
somatic
anxiety
was
statistically
significant
and
negative
(r=-‐.417,
p<0.01;
r=-‐.397,
p<0.01),
and
with
confidence
positive,
but
not
sta-‐
tistically
significant
(r=.182,
p>0.05).These
results,
as
well
as
the
results
of
further
regression
analysis,
have
entirely
confirmed
our
expectations
that
the
high
cognitive
anxiety
(fear
of
possible
failure,
error,
poor
performance,
loss
of
concentration,
failure
to
reach
goals,
others’
negative
assessment,
etc.)
is
the
best
and
most
reliable
predictor
of
poor
competitive
perform-‐
ance
in
orienteering,
because
it
is
the
only
factor
that
explains
almost
total
amount
of
variance
of
achieved
competitive
results
(15.8%).
Future
re-‐
searches
on
larger
samples
of
athletes
need
to
investigate
if
the
gender
dif-‐
ferences
in
level
of
all
three
components
of
competitive
state
anxiety
of
ori-‐
enteer,
especially
in
the
amount
of
cognitive
anxiety,
which
most
affects
the
quality
of
their
performance,
are
random,
or
specific
product
of
a
complex
interaction
of
psychological
profile
of
women
and
competitive
nature
of
ori-‐
enteering
as
a
sport.
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