Volume : 7, Issue : 1, JAN 2021

EFFECT OF DYNAMIC MUSCLE RELAXATION TRAINING ON COMPETITIVE ANXIETY OF MALE INTER-COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL PLAYERS

DR. SANDEEP BALKRISHNA SATAO

Abstract

The present study is mainly concerned with Basketball players who participated in the high level competition. Now days, the Game Basketball is becoming as a professional sport rather than the competitive sport. So the competitiveness among the Basketball players is growing up day by day with different color. Reason for such competitiveness arises naturally among the players, because of pressures such as equal competition, concern about fulfilling the expectation of their teachers, coaches, parents and peer group and personal needs. The present study investigated the effect of psychological skill training techniques such as dynamic muscle relaxation on competitive anxiety. The three sub-scales of competitive anxiety were also examined; cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self confidence. The study consisted of 24 male Basketball players from Degree College of Physical Education. Their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. The (CSAI-2), also developed by Martens, Vealey, & Burton (1990) were used. Subjects were randomly assigned to either a relaxation training experimental group, or a no relaxation training control group. Both the experimental groups were given training for 3 days a week and for 6 weeks in total. Paired t-tests were used to test the effect of treatment groups individually between pre and post –tests of all the groups on variables used in the present study. The result of the study reveals that there was significant difference in 0.05 levels of competitive anxiety among the male inter-collegiate Basketball players.

Keywords

RELAXATION TRAINING, COMPETITIVE ANXIETY.

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