Abstract
Cognitive anxiety has the capability to threaten a person’s well-being because it can increase worries and doubt. Athletes will achieve the best performance when their levels of cognitive anxiety were low. The rationale for this study was designed to examine the levels of cognitive anxiety before and during competition between team and individual athletes. In addition, this paper had examined the relationship between cognitive anxiety and sports performance, during competition. Cognitive anxiety was measured using the “Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2” (CSAI-2) and the “Sports Performance Scale” (SPS). The participants for this research were 121 individuals and 103 team sports athletes. The study was conducted during sports events between schools. The players completed the CSAI-2 twice: before and during the sports competition. The result showed that the cognitive anxiety was higher on team compared to individual sports athletes, before and during competitions. Besides that, the results also revealed the tendency of cognitive anxiety increases during competition on team compared to individual sports athletes. Furthermore, the result showed a negative correlation between cognitive anxiety and sports performance during competition on individuals and team sports. Sport psychologists, sport counselors, and coaches should use the present findings to recommend coping strategies to team and individual athletes that are appropriate for dealing with their athletes’ levels of cognitive anxiety.
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Parnabas, V., Wahidah, T., Abdullah, N.M., Mohamed Shapie, M.N., Parnabas, J., Mahamood, Y. (2014). Cognitive Anxiety and Performance on Team and Individual Sports Athletes. In: Adnan, R., Ismail, S., Sulaiman, N. (eds) Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology 2014 (ICoSSEET 2014). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-107-7_32
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