Volume : 9, Issue : 2, FEB 2023

AN ANALYSIS OF SPORT COMPETITION ANXIETY AMONG COLLEGE-LEVEL CRICKET PLAYERS

ABDUL HYE, DR. B JONH, DR. SUBHABRATA KAR

Abstract

This research work compared the level of “fear of athletic competition” among cricket at the college level players. In search of investigation of this project, 8 college cricket players (male) at Murshidabad quarterfinalist team 2021-2022, (Sripat Singh College, Dumkal College, Murshidabad Adarsha Mahavidyalaya, Raja Birendra Chandra College, Haji A K Khan College, Jalangi Mahavidyalaya, Prof. Syed Nurul Hasan College, and S. R. Fatepuria College) were carefully picked on purpose to serve as the study. Out of eight colleges four colleges have been selected in semifinal team namely Haji A K Khan College, Raja Birendra Chandra College, Jalangi Mahavidyalaya, Prof. Syed Nurul Hasan College. Competition anxiety in sports was assessed for this study using the ‘Sport Competition Anxiety Test’ (SCAT), the Hypnosis Works questionnaire from 2006. The required information was gathered with the aid of an evaluation form connected to fear of athletic competition. 80 male cricket players provided information on the sport competition anxiety variable. Mean, SD, and Analysis of Variance, three descriptive statistics, were employed to examine the data (ANOVA). The important threshold was placed at 0.05. According to the study’s findings, there is no statistically considerable difference between Haji A K Khan College and Jalangi Mahavidyalaya in terms of competition anxiety in sports.

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