A Link Between Anxiety And The Performance Of Athletes

Part I of Essay
Is there ? Previous research in the field has suggested that the majority of the consultations conducted by sport psychologists be related to anxiety (Humara 1999). This is a large part of the athletes’ own mind-set. It is necessary for him or her to demonstrate the abi ....

Part II of Essay
.... be considered to be more situational in nature and is often associated with arousal of the autonomic nervous system. Trait anxiety can be thought of as a world view that in individual uses when coping with situations in his or her environment (Speilberger, 1996). Trait anxiety influences performances in that individuals with high trait anxiety will attend more information related to state anxiety (hardy et al., 1996). Now one of the earliest models that attempted to explain the relationship between arousal and performance was the inverte ....