Title: The Effect of Sport Stress on Self-Management and Competitive Anxiety among Intercollegiate Male Basketball Athletes
Abstract: Purpose: The level of sport stress, self-management, and competitive anxiety are investigated to identify the possible relationships among intercollegiate basketball athletes (Male, n=167).BR Method: After performing the frequency and factor analyses, correlation-coefficient and multivariate regression analyses were carried out.BR Results: The results showed that sport stress & self-management, and competitive anxiety & some of the sub-variable of the self-management showed negative correlations while all the rests showed positive correlations. Next, as for a result of the causal relationship between sport stress and competitive anxiety, leadership dissatisfaction, quality of competition dissatisfaction, career worries, and limited personal time factors significantly influenced competitive anxiety. On the other hand, leadership dissatisfaction, quality of competition dissatisfaction, career worries, and limited personal time factors of sport stress variable significantly explained the self-management. Finally, self-management factors such as body, mental, and interpersonal managements significantly influenced competitive anxiety.BR Conclusion: Current results would be able to help collegiate athletes to dissociate the factors into something they can control and can't control. Concentrating on the manageable factors could help them to reduce the level of competitive anxiety.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-02-28
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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