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- Title
Pre-Competitive Anxiety: A comparative study between «Under 12» and Senior teams in football.
- Authors
Serrano, João; Reis, Rui; Fonseca, Teresa; Paulo, Rui; Honório, Samuel; Batista, Marco
- Abstract
The present investigation intends to study if the importance and the difficulty of the game, if the pre-competitive anxiety (somatic and cognitive) and the levels of self-confidence in football were influenced by the competitive level (Under 12s and Seniors) and where the game took place (home / outside) and to verify the correlations between these variables. The sample was intentional and consisted of 85 male athletes, participants in the regional championship of «Under 12s» and Seniors. The «Under 12s» athletes (35) were aged between 11 and 12 years (M = 11.02 ± 0.37) and the Senior athletes (50) were aged between 18 and 35 years (M = 26.66 ± 4.41). The instrument used was the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory (CSAI-2) of Martens et al. (1990) and translated and validated into the Portuguese language by Raposo & Fernandes (2004). Regarding statistical procedures we tested the sample distribution through the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test. For a normal distribution, we used the T-student parametric test for independent samples. Correlations between the variables were determined using the Pearson correlation coefficient, and we applied linear regression according to the variable’s importance and difficulty of the games for both age groups. We also applied an inferential method based on the magnitude of effects through d-Cohen and r-Cohen. We adopted a significance level of p dŠ 0.05. The results showed that, regardless of the competitive level (Under 12s or Seniors), athletes attributed high levels of importance and difficulty to games played both at home and outside. The levels of importance and difficulty of the games, as well as the levels of cognitive and somatic anxiety were higher in the Under 12s teams, although without significant differences compared to Seniors’ teams, whereas the levels of self-confidence were significantly higher in the Seniors’ teams. In both groups positive correlations were observed between the difficulty of the game and its importance, promoting these variables in general terms and in both levels an increase of anxiety and a decrease in self-confidence. The results were abounding that the importance and the difficulty of the games explain residually in the levels of Under 12s and Seniors the states of anxiety and self confidence.
- Subjects
COMPETITIVE state anxiety; HIGH school football players; COMPETITION (Psychology); SELF-confidence; HIGH school football &; psychology; PEARSON correlation (Statistics)
- Publication
Retos: Nuevas Perspectivas de Educación Física, Deporte y Recreación, 2019, Vol 36, p318
- ISSN
1579-1726
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47197/retos.v36i36.67129