Anxiety Flashcards
What is anxiety
A negative response to a perceived threat
What is competitive trait anxiety
A disposition to suffer from nervousness in most sporting situations
What is competitive state anxiety
A nervous response to a specific sporting situation
What is the relationship between traits and state anxiety
Direct relationships
Those with high trait have high state in high competitive situations
What are the 2 forms of anxiety
Cognitive - Thoughts and feelings
Somatic - Physiological responses
Relearionship between cognitive anxiety and performance
When cognitive anxiety is high, performance is low
Relationship between somatic anxiety and performance
When somatic is low or high, performance is low
When somatic anxiety is moderate (warm up) optimal performance occurs
Before and during a competition, how high is somatic and cognitive anxiety?
Cognitive is high and somatic is low leading to up to a competition
At the onset of competition, somatic is high and cognitive decreases as the competition goes on
What are the 3 methods of measuring anxiety
Questionnaires
Observation
Physiological testing
What 2 questionnaires are used to measure anxiety?
Sport competitive anxiety test (SCAT)
CSAI2
How many times is the SCAT taken
Once
How many times is the SCAI2 taken and when
3 occasions
A week before
A day before
An hour before
What is the CSAI2 measuring?
Cognitive state
Somatic state
Self confidence
What is validity
Whether data collected actually measures what it claims to measuee
What is reliability
The degree to which data collection is consistent and stable overtime
Strengths of Questionnaires
Cheap
Quick
Efficient
Large number can be assessed
Easy to compre
Weakness of Questionarries
May not understand question
May give socially desired answer
May depend on athelete mood
Leading questions can cause bias
Performer may rush questionnaire
Strengths of using observations to measure anxiety
True to life as it is done in real time
Strengths of physiological testing
Factual so comparisons can be made
Can be used in game with trackers
Weakness of Observations
Subjective
Observers need to know normal behaviour of performer
Time consuming
Evaluation apprehension may occur
Weakness of physiological testing
Expensive as those using equipment need training
Wearing tracker may restrict movement
Awareness of tracker may cause stress
What is the validity like of questionnaires and why?
Not very valid
People may lie
May go with current feeling rather than competition feeling
Bias
May be rushed and give invalid results
What is the reliability of questionnaires like and why?
Not reliable
People may respond differently on different days
What is the validity like on observations and why?
Valid
Takes place in real life setting
What is the reliability like of observations and why?
Not reliable
Observer may draw different conclusions with same info - subjective
What is the validity like of physiological testing and why?
Valid as data is objective
Can also be seen as invalid due to change in behaviour if aware of assessment
What is the reliability of physiological testing like and why?
Reliable
Situational factors make it reliable
What is observations?
Gaining a measure of anxiety by watching the performer
Can be done in training or a match
What is physiological testing?
Measuring anxiety by measuring physical responses in the body - somatic anxiety
