The Relationship between Competition Anxiety with Performance of Young Wrestlers

Tabish Fahim, Ajeet Kumar Saharan

Abstract: Competition anxiety is a common emotional state experienced by athletes at all levels of performance. Most of the athletes have competition anxiety and this does affect their performance overall. The purpose of the present research was to study the relationship between Competition Anxiety with performance of young wrestlers. Sport Competition Anxiety Test was administered on a total of 123 young wrestlers who participated in the 7th All India Chandgiram gold cup wrestling tournaments in March 17-18, 2018. Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to measure the significance relationship. The results revealed that competition anxiety have a negative significant relationship with the performance.

Keywords: Competition anxiety, Performance, Wrestlers