*Ph. D., Research Scholar, Dept. of Physical Education, University of Madras, Chennai, India
**Director of Physical Education, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Online published on 28 March, 2018.
Anxiety as an emotion that is difficult to define and even more difficult to reliably detect in performance but the importance of anxiety as a powerful influence in contemporary life is increasingly recognized and manifestations of current concern with anxiety phenomena are ubiquitously reflected in literature, the arts, science and the facets of our culture. The purpose of this study was to compare the Sports Competition Anxiety of male and female basketball players at college level. The present study was conducted on the 12 male and 12 female basketball players were randomly selected from affiliated to the University of Madras. Their age was ranged 18 to 25 year. The collection of data to measure through Sports Competition Anxiety Marten's (1977) Inventory was used. For the analysis of data, collected by administering the questionnaire to all the subject's t-test was employed at p<.0.05 level of significant. The result of the study concluded that there was statistically significant difference in men and women basketball players. It is clear that the mean of men basketball players had better significant difference than the women basketball players.
Anxiety, Male, Female And Basketball
