Abstract:

The aim of the study is to determine the state anxiety levels of sub-elite voleyball players. In this study, 85 male and 36 female totally 121 voleyball players which were participated to Turkish Universities Volleyball Championships in Kayseri, were participated volunteerly Socio-demographic Data Form which was included 4 personal questions and The State Anxiety Inventory were applied to athletes a hour before competition in the sport fields. Data were analyzed by using SPSS (version 20.0). The t-test for comparison between two independent groups and ANOVA for analysis of more than two groups were used. Post Hoc Tukey test was used to find the statistical difference among groups. The level of statistical error was 0.05. According to statistical analysis, statistically significant difference was not observed in gender, and age parametres of voleyball players. Statistically significant difference was observed in sport age and league level parametres of voleyball players. In conclusion, the game stress had an effect on high level of state anxiety scores of volleyball players who participated in our study. It was thought that trainers should develop training programmes which contains psychological states of voleyball players and these trainings could be helpfull for reaching the expected anxiety levels of voleyball players

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