The Relationship Between Competitive Anxiety and Performance

Level Among Athletes of UiTM Shah Alam

PROBLEM STATEMENT









MUHAMMAD FARIS FARHAN BIN AZIZAN
2011762279
ED2265A

PREPARED FOR :
DR NORSHIDAH NORDIN



RESEARCH METHODOLOGY MUHAMMAD FARIS FARHAN BIN AZIZAN 2011762279
ED2265A


A major problem for athletes is dealing with their bodies' physiological response to
nerves. While most athletes recognize that some nervous tension is normal and
important to performance, athletes struggling with performance anxiety worry about
losing control of their nerves, preventing them from performing well. In todays world
different sciences have found a particular position in sport and instructors and
coaches are using scientific results to improve athletic performance. According to the
Optimum Arousal Theory (Hanin 1997) each athlete will perform at their best if their level
of arousal or competitive anxiety falls within their optimum functioning zone.
Sport psychology which has an important role in sport is related to direct
understanding of control system and tries to enable athletes to realize their potentials
completely (kamani, 2009). Anxiety is a negative emotional state with feelings of anger,
sadness and anxiety that is associated with physical activity or arousal Anxiety in sport
shows the feelings of the athletes that results from the thought that there may be a
problem and so the activity will lead to a failure (Atarody, 2011).

Today, in societies that have ambitious expectations from athletes, competition
has a specific importance. In this sort of societies, competition creates lots of request
in competitive athletes and often the result of the competitions is determined according to
difference in the perception and skill of the participants. This would create a high level of
stress in participants and this stress is generally a consequence of competitive anxiety
(keshavarzy, 2010). The more important the competition is, the more the stresses the
competition will be more prone to anxiety (Molanorozy, 2010).

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between competitive
anxiety and performance level of athletes of UiTM Shah Alam. Studies have shown that
type of the sport, nature of the sport (individual or group) and the gender of the athletes
is effective in occurrence of this type of anxiety. Smith (2004) showed that the level of
anxiety in athletes of Individual and group courses are different. Abolghasmi (2006)
expressed that the competitive anxiety in Individual athletes is more. It is important to
note here that the importance of increasing the performance as the main aim of
championship competitions show the importance of the subject of our study, because
it seems that in order to improve the athletic performance studying the factors
affecting the performance is very important