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Lengvąją atletiką sportuojančių paauglių asmenybės nerimo ir psichinės būsenos prieš varžybas ypatumai / Personal and pre-competition anxiety peculiarities of track-and-field adolescent athletes

Pre-competition anxiety in sports is very common not only among professional athletes, but also among adolescents who are active in sports, compete a lot and experience physical, emotional and social changes in their lives. The aim of the study was to evaluate track-and-field adolescent athletes’ (12-18 years old) personal anxiety level and pre-competition anxiety. The hypothesis of the thesis was based on the assumption that adolescent track-and-field athletes’ personal anxiety level and pre-competition anxiety components (somatic, emotional and cognitive) differ depending on gender.
Personal anxiety level was determined using J. Taylor’s test. V. A. Alekseev’s pre-competition anxiety test showed dominant competition state anxiety component among adolescent athletes.
Examination of the results and setting the personal anxiety level for the track-and-field adolescent athletes studied showed no gender differences (p>0,05).
The findings of the results among track-and-field athletes’ pre-competition anxiety components (somatic, emotional and cognitive) suggest dependable differences between adolescent girls and boys (p<0,05). The test results also showed that cognitive anxiety was most common in both groups, i.e. boys and girls.
The comparison of the results (those of both methods studied individually for every athlete) of the personal anxiety level and pre-competition anxiety tests from the perspective of gender suggested that the differences between gender do exist (p<0,0... [to full text]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060512_113559-92344
Date12 May 2006
CreatorsGedvilaitė-Moan, Akvilė
ContributorsLazauskienė, D., Skarbalius, A., Jankauskienė, R., Ivaškienė, V., Ruibytė, L., Trinkūnas, Eugenijus, Laskienė, Skaistė, Griciūtė, A., Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education
PublisherLithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education
Source SetsLithuanian ETD submission system
LanguageLithuanian
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster thesis
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060512_113559-92344
RightsUnrestricted

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