The Relationship Between Competitive Anxiety and Performance

Level Among Athletes of UiTM Shah Alam

PROBLEM STATEMENT

MUHAMMAD FARIS FARHAN BIN AZIZAN

2011762279

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PREPARED FOR :

DR NORSHIDAH NORDIN

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY MUHAMMAD FARIS FARHAN BIN AZIZAN 2011762279

A major problem for athletes is dealing with their bodies' physiological response to

nerves. While most athletes recognize that some nervous tension is normal and

important to performance, athletes struggling with performance anxiety worry about

losing control of their nerves, preventing them from performing well. In today’s world

different sciences have found a particular position in sport and instructors and

coaches are using scientific results to improve athletic performance. According to the

Optimum Arousal Theory (Hanin 1997) each athlete will perform at their best if their level

of arousal or competitive anxiety falls within their optimum functioning zone.

Sport psychology which has an important role in sport is related to direct

understanding of control system and tries to enable athletes to realize their potentials

completely (kamani, 2009). Anxiety is a negative emotional state with feelings of

anger, sadness and anxiety that is associated with physical activity or arousal Anxiety

in sport shows the feelings of the athletes that results from the thought that there may

be a problem and so the activity will lead to a failure (Atarody, 2011).

Today, in societies that have ambitious expectations from athletes, competition

has a specific importance. In this sort of societies, competition creates lots of request

in competitive athletes and often the result of the competitions is determined according

to difference in the perception and skill of the participants. This would create a high level

of stress in participants and this stress is generally a consequence of competitive anxiety

(keshavarzy, 2010). The more important the competition is, the more the stresses the

competition will be more prone to anxiety (Molanorozy, 2010).

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between competitive

anxiety and performance level of athletes of UiTM Shah Alam. Studies have shown

that type of the sport, nature of the sport (individual or group) and the gender of the

athletes is effective in occurrence of this type of anxiety. Smith (2004) showed that the

level of anxiety in athletes of Individual and group courses are different. Abolghasmi

(2006) expressed that the competitive anxiety in Individual athletes is more. It is important

to note here that the importance of increasing the performance as the main aim of

championship competitions show the importance of the subject of our study, because

it seems that in order to improve the athletic performance studying the factors

affecting the performance is very important

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