Abstract:

The objective of this study was to examine whether competitive state anxiety in elite student-athlete swimmers is associated with their years of sports experience and/or with the anthropometric measurements of the participants. The demographic data, including the gender, age, and years of sports experience of the student-athletes, were gathered using a self-report questionnaire. The Competitive State Anxiety Scale-2 (CSAI-2) was used to measure the student-athletes’ feelings of competition anxiety. Anthropometric measures included height, weight, BMI, body fat percentage; muscle mass, as well as somatotype components. There were no statistically significant relationships between competition anxiety and sports experience and ectomorphy component values, regardless of gender (p>.05). Similarly, no significant relationship were observed between the competition anxiety scores of either male and female swimmers and height, weight, BMI, body fat percentage, muscle mass and mesomorphy or endomorphy component values. As a result, this study found that the competitive anxiety of elite student-athlete swimmers was not related to either their years of experience in sports or their anthropometric characteristics.

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