1. Competitive Anxiety in Young Basketball Players from the Real Madrid Foundation
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Jorge Franco Martín, Ana Concepción Jiménez Sánchez, Luis Javier Durán González, Manuel Tomás Abad Robles, Gema Ortega Vila, José Robles Rodríguez, and Francisco Javier Giménez Fuentes-Guerra
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Cognitive anxiety ,Basketball ,sports training ,Geography, Planning and Development ,education ,TJ807-830 ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Positive correlation ,TD194-195 ,01 natural sciences ,Renewable energy sources ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Age groups ,Sports training ,medicine ,GE1-350 ,Modalities ,biology ,multidimensional theory of anxiety ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Athletes ,cognitive anxiety ,030229 sport sciences ,biology.organism_classification ,0104 chemical sciences ,Somatic anxiety ,Environmental sciences ,010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry ,somatic anxiety ,Anxiety ,Multidimensional theory of anxiety ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,human activities ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Competition during the sports training process should aid young athletes’ overall development. The aim of this study was to ascertain the levels of competitive anxiety in athletes who practice basketball at the Real Madrid Foundation (RMF)’s Social-Sports Schools, and to analyze whether any differences exist in regard to anxiety in the various subscales that take into account gender, participation in the RMF’s internal competitions, and basketball modalities (mini basketball/basketball). The study sample consisted of 320 players (224 boys and 96 girls) belonging to the following di erent age groups: 8–9-year-olds, 10–11-year-olds, 12–13-year-olds, and 14–15-year-olds (M = 10.54; SD = 1.92). The Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS-2) was used in the version translated and validated in Spanish. It was found that the athletes displayed low levels of competitive anxiety in all three subscales. No significant di erences were observed between the genders, nor between basketball modalities (mini basketball/basketball). Finally, a positive correlation was observed between the various subscales.
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- 2020
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