RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATE ANXIETY AND PERFORMANCE IN GYMNASTICS

Abstract

Performance in gymnastics not only depends on systematic training to develop physical, physiological and technical aspects but also demands on consideration of psychological characteristics like somatic and cognitive anxiety as well as self-confidence are the perquisite of the sports. Therefore, an attempt was made to investigate the relationship between state anxiety and performance in gymnastics. Thirty male gymnasts were randomly selected from senior level gymnastics championship held at Allahabad, U.P. in 2006-07. Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2) was used to collect the data. For assessing the relationship of somatic anxiety, cognitive anxiety and self-confidence with the performance of gymnasts the Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (r) was used with the level of significance was set at 0.05. The co-efficient correlation of somatic anxiety and gymnastics performance was 0.127, cognitive anxiety and gymnastics performance was 0.448, self-confidence and gymnastics performance was 0.405 and total competitive state anxiety and gymnastics performance was 0.512. On the basic of analysis the following statements are drawn: the somatic anxiety was insignificant, the cognitive anxiety was significant, the self-confidence was significant and the total competitive state anxiety was significant with the gymnastics performance.