Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of continum anxiety level and the differenced among them on gymnasts (artistic, aerobic and rhythmic) performance. The sample of research are 60 gymnasts (20 artistic, 20 aerobic and 20 rhythmic). “Continum Anxety Scale” was used, this scale was developed by Spielberger et al., (1970) then was translated in Turkish by Oner and Le Compte (1983). In analysing data was used SPSS 20 program and the effect of anxiety on gymnasts performance was used Pearson Correlation coefficient and the differences of continum anxiety between gymnasts was used Anova test. At the same time, performance of gymnasts was measured based also on points of liscenced referees. In this paper we concluded that, lower level of continum anxiety have positive effect on gymnasts performance, and, the effect of continum anxiety was higher on artistic and aerobic gymnasts performance, compared to rhythmic gymnasts which was lower.

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