COMPARISON OF PRE-COMPETITIVE AND POST-COMPETITIVE ANXIETY LEVEL OFINTER- COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL PLAYERS

 Dr. Sangeeta Rani and Dr. Manoj Kumar Dhadwal

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this study was to compare pre-competitive anxiety and post-competitive anxiety in Inter- Collegiate football players. A group of 170 football players (boys=85 and girls=85) were selected from different Colleges of Ethiopia and Eritrea through the purposive sampling technique. Their age was ranged from 18 to 25 years. Data were collected from athletes using a Sports Competitive Anxiety Test - (SCAT) consists of fifteen items which include 5 spurious items, 8 positive items and 2 negative items. The t-test was used to test the effect of anxiety level between pre and post completion. The significance level was determined as p<0.01. The result of the study reveals that there was significant difference in 0.01 levels of pre-competitive anxiety and post-competitive anxiety among the male and female inter-collegiate football players.

Keywords: Anxiety, Inter-collegiate, Football players and SCAT.