The examination of athlete’s responses to elite sport stressors in the competition environment has developed into a focal area of sport psychology with many researchers interested in assessing anxiety responses of athletes to competitive events.Competitive state-anxiety usually follows a pattern of subjective feelings of tension and inadequacy, combined with heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system. The intensity and duration of the anxious state alternates according to; the amount of stressful stimuli the athlete encounters, and the period of subjective threat created by the stimuli.This study was designed aiming at evaluation the competitive state anxiety in junior athletes in many sports prior to a competition, highlighting how important is that test in pre participation screening of competitive athletes, investigating any possible differences between male and female players and detecting any virtual relation to the physical fitness of the participantts. |
