Effect of anxiety on physiological, psychological and behavioural aspects in sports performances

The purpose of the study was identifying the effect of anxiety on Sports Performance of Physiological, Psychological and Behavioural aspects. The two distinct mode of anxiety are trait anxiety based on innate characters and state anxiety relates to situational specific. In connection with this, there are two processes viz. somatic and cognitive anxieties. Competitors suffer from both processes that are dominant over the other. The population of this study comprised of all the players at different level of sports activities from Department of Physical Education. The data collected by using the Sport Competition Anxiety Questionnaire. Rainer Martens (1977), professor of Physical Education at the University of Illinois, designed The Sport Competition Anxiety Test is a psychometric test to score athletes for trait anxiety, which he calls A-trait. This test aims to be objective, proof against response bias (demand characteristics) and easy to fill in and score. The SCAT was discovered to be high in test and retest reliability (r =0.77). The collected data computed by using Analysis of Covariance. Psychometric tests are also objective; it means they do not depend on subject's interpretation or opinion. The obtained f was significant at 0.05 level of Confidence. In addition, this test helps to measures trait anxiety, which is a long lasting disposition; whereas biological arousal is temporary and situational. And widely used test in Sport Psychology, probably because it's so simple for Martens himself has gone on to publish many books on coaching and founded the American Sport Education Program, which endorse physical education in schools and colleges based on psychological principles.