Personality characteristics and competitive anxiety in individual and team athletes. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 The purposes of this study were to investigate differences in personality and competitive anxiety depending on types of sports and gender, and to determine the influence of personality on competitive anxiety.
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"I must be perfect": The role of irrational beliefs and perfectionism on the competitive anxiety of Hungarian athletes. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 In this study the influence of irrational beliefs and perfectionism on the emergence of competitive anxiety was investigated. While previous studies indicate that higher irrational beliefs predict greater competitive anxiety, in the present study it is ...
Tóth R, Turner MJ, Kökény T, Tóth L.
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Participation motivation and athletes' competitive anxiety, mediating role of psychological resilience and moderating role of sport commitment. [PDF]
Front PsycholBackgroundAs competitive demands in sport increase, competitive anxiety has become an important concern for athletes. Such anxiety may interfere with athletes’ performance during a specific competitive event and may also be associated with longer-term ...
He L, Liu Y.
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The relationship between metacognitive beliefs and competitive anxiety among elite and amateur soccer players. [PDF]
Front Sports Act LivingBackgroundCompetitive anxiety is a commonly observed psychological phenomenon within the field of competitive sports such as soccer. Metacognitive beliefs are associated with anxiety in clinical and non-clinical populations, however, few studies have ...
Nygaard MU, Havnen A.
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A study on the impact of systematic desensitization training on competitive anxiety among Latin dance athletes. [PDF]
Front PsycholObjectiveIn the domain of competitive events, Latin dance athletes have always suffered competitive anxiety, which is a prevalent and prevailing psychological facet, in pre-, intra-, and post-competitive engagements.
Chen J, Zhou D, Gong D, Wu S, Chen W.
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The influence of athletes' personality traits on competition performance: the multiple mediating effects of competitive anxiety, perfectionism, and stressors. [PDF]
Front PsycholObjectiveTo examine the impact of personality traits on athletes’ competition performance, verifying the dual-chain mediating roles of competitive anxiety, perfectionism, and stressors.MethodUsing a questionnaire survey, personality traits, competitive ...
Dai P, Chen C, Gu M.
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The Association Between Social Desirability and Competitive Anxiety in Young Football Players with Different Qualifications. [PDF]
Psychol RussBackground. Sports performance anxiety is understood as a tendency to respond with cognitive or physical anxiety in competitive situations where the athlete's performance can be assessed. Objective.
Sultanov MB.
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The effect of attention on wellbeing in combat sport athletes: the mediating role of competitive anxiety. [PDF]
Front PsycholIntroductionThis study aimed to examine whether the effect of attentional processes on psychological well-being in combat sport athletes operates directly or indirectly through competitive anxiety within an integrated model.MethodsA total of 418 actively
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The influence of competitive anxiety of Chinese elite swimmers. [PDF]
Front PsycholBackgroundCompetitive anxiety is a common stress response in competitive environments, influencing sports performance, particularly among elite swimmers.PurposeThis study aims to examine how the characteristics of competitive anxiety impact sports ...
Zhou Y, Jin Z, Wen Y.
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Correlates of competitive anxiety in student athletes: the interactive roles of competitive stress, psychological resilience, and achievement motivation. [PDF]
Front PsycholBackgroundCompetitive anxiety (CA) is a common mental health concern among college student athletes. Although competitive stress (CS) is an important correlate of CA, the roles of psychological resilience (PR) and achievement motivation (AM) in this ...
Chen Y, Bu Y, Sun C, Kim DH.
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