Subject: Q Science (General)
Year: 2025
Type: Article
Type: NonPeerReviewed
Title: ANXIETY BETWEEN ATHLETES AND NON-ATHLETES MALE AT THE AGE OF 11-14 YEARS
Author: SHAQIRI, Kastriot
Author: MEMISHI, Shpresa
Author: ABAZI, Laureta
Abstract: Success in sport is not only due to the talent, training, physical and technical-tactical preparation. Sport activity is a complex behavior, and research of psychological factors enables acknowledgement, follow-up, transformation and shaping of athlete’s personality. Given that all top athletes are almost equal in many relevant elements of their skills, the psychological factors are increasingly noted to have a decisive role in sports competition. It is commonly acknowledged that the efficiency in sports does not only depend on the exercise of the body, but also on the mental exercise of an athlete’s mind. Anxiety is a psychological occurrence which affects the overall behavior of an individual, and the success in sport all along. The purpose of this research is oriented towards determining the distinctions in the level of anxiety between athletes from different individual and collective sports (karate, wrestling, judo, athletics, football, basketball, volley-ball, handball) and male non-athletes during adolescence. 50 subjects have been included in this research; male athletes aged 11 to 14 (early adolescence). The overall sample has been divided into two groups with 25 subjects for each group, respectively 25 subject athletes from different sports and 25 non-athlete subjects. In order to assess the anxiety as a psychological feature, the following tests were used: TAI (the Talt Anxiety Inventary) and CSAI-2 (Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2). Statistical processing was performed with the Statistical Program for Social Sciences, SPSS15. According to the results obtained from this study, we can confirm that there are significant statistical distinctions in the level of anxiety of tested athletes in individual sports, collective sports and non-athletes during adolescence.
Publisher: Faculty of Physical Education, Tetova, Republic of North Macedonia
Relation: https://eprints.unite.edu.mk/2129/
Identifier: oai:eprints.unite.edu.mk:2129
Identifier: https://eprints.unite.edu.mk/2129/1/Sport%20and%20Health%202025-51-55.pdfIdentifier: SHAQIRI, Kastriot and MEMISHI, Shpresa and ABAZI, Laureta (2025) ANXIETY BETWEEN ATHLETES AND NON-ATHLETES MALE AT THE AGE OF 11-14 YEARS. International Journal of Sport Sciences and Health, 12 (25-26). pp. 51-55. ISSN 2545-4978
