🔵 6.2 Further Psychological Effects on the Individual: Anxiety Flashcards
Anxiety
A level of nerves and irrational thinking
Competitive trait anxiety
A disposition to suffer form nervousness in most sporting situation
When someone has competitive trait anxiety, when do they get anxious
Before all competitions regardless of the importance of the event and possibility of winning
Competitive state anxiety
A nervous response to a specific sporting situation
Factors of state anxiety
Temporary and it is a response to a particular moment in a game
Example of when state anxiety would occur
When taking a penalty
Link between state and trait anxiety
An individual with high trait anxiety is more likely to experience a hig state anxiety when faced with a stressful situation
Who established the link between state and trait theory
Rainer martens when establishing SCAT
Somatic anxiety
A physiological response to a threat such as as an increased heart rate
Cognitive anxiety
A psychological response such as worrying about losing.
Factors of cognitive anxiety
- may not believe they have the ability to complete a task
- nervousness
- loss of concentration
- irrational thinking
Factors of somatic anxiety
- increased heart rate
- sweating
- muscular tension
- sickness
What effect does somatic anxiety have on performance
Same as inverted U theory, increased somatic anxiety increases performance up to a point after that will impair performance
Effect of cognitive anxiety on peritmrnance
Greater cognitive the worse performance
How long before a competition does somatic anxiety increase
Just before a competition
How long before a competition does cognitive anxiety increase
Much earlier, 1 and a half hours before
3 anxiety measures
- questionaires
- observation
- physiological testing
Questionnaire
Set of questions to measure or assess something, in this case anxiety
Advantages of a questjknaire
Cheap easy and efficient
Disadvantages of questionnaire
- players may not understand question
- players may give socially desirable response
- answers may depend on mood state
- they questions may be in appropriate giving a bias result
Sports competition anxiety tests (SCAT)
A questionnaire used by sports psychologists to measure anxiety
Development of SCAT
Competitive sport anxiety inventory (CSAI 2) 1990
Examples of questions of CSAI
I have self doubts
Scale = not at all, somewhat, moderately, very much so
My body feels tense
Format of results from CSAI 2 test
Maximum score of 36 for cognitive, anxiety and confidence, 9 questions for each
