A STUDY OF PRE-COMPETITIVE ANXIETY OF ARCHERS IN RELATION TO THEIR PERFORMANCE
Abstract
Performance in Archery is not only dependent upon various physical or physiological factors but it also depends upon various psychological parameters. Keeping in view the importance of the relation between anxiety and performance, the study focused on the aim to establish relationship between pre-competitive anxiety and performance of National level archers of India. Further comparison of male and female archers’ pre-competitive anxiety was studied and comparison of Archers (Male/Female) using Wooden equipment and Modern equipment was studied. 60 Archers (30 male, 30 female) were selected for the study of which 15 male and 15 female used wooden equipment while other 15 male and 15 female used modern equipment. S. Sharma and M. Singh (73) adoption of Speilberger's STAI was used to measure anxiety. Statistical techniques included Mean, S.D.,’t’ test and Karl Pearson's co-efficient of correlation. It was observed during the study that the mean of pre-competitive anxiety of females is less than their male counterparts but statistically not significant. While comparing the means of pre-competitive anxiety scores of archers using modern equipment with archers using wooden equipment it was found that the Archers using modern equipment, both Male and Female, had higher scores than their counterparts using Indian equipment but the difference was not significant statistically. The co-relation of performance in Archery with anxiety scores is negative in all the four groups studied and is significant in male archers using modern equipment, indicating that the anxiety affects the performance of archers negatively or in other words, with the increase in pre-competitive anxiety there is decline in the performance. The greater co-relation in the male archers using modern equipment may be attributed to the higher or tougher competition between them. On the basis of investigations appropriate changes could be induced in coaching and training programme for manipulating desirable anxiety among archers, and some efforts could be adopted in coaching methodology, according to their level of anxiety. Psychological preparation of archers will help for better performance.
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