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Examination of Mental Training on Competeive Anxiety of Child and Teenager Karate Practitioners
Introduction: One of cases in which trait anxiety is studied and examined is in athletes specially in cemptetive sports. Competetive anxiety is a certain negative emotional response to competetive stressors like environmental stimulators related to good competetive function. Mental training is one of the most basic and most applied intervention for athletes specially in competetive sports and main instrument of athletes tactic and skill. Relaxtion trainings are one of the most applied types of mental training.
Methods and materials: In this study 23 karate child and teenager practioners have been examined. these people were selected as available samples and had been put in two groups of 12 people(exmperiment) and 11 people(control). Participants filled “sport anxiety scale-2 for children and teenagers” questionnaire. Relaxation intervention performed in 8 sessions for group. After 8 sessions all participants took part in a post-test.
Findings: Results have shown that both groups had no diffrence in sport anxiety and comptetive function. Also in subscales of “somatic anxiety” and “concentration disruption” there was no meaningful difference, but in “worry” subscale the groups were diffrent. The group which have recieved mental relaxation training intervention, had shown less worry.
Conclusion: Mental training (in kind of relaxation techniques ) is a suitable way to reduce worry of child and teenager karate practiones in case when worry is accounted as an important factor in atheletic comptetitions.
Key words: Mental Training, Relaxation, Competitive Anxiety, Karate, Children and Teenagers
Introduction: One of cases in which trait anxiety is studied and examined is in athletes specially in cemptetive sports. Competetive anxiety is a certain negative emotional response to competetive stressors like environmental stimulators related to good competetive function. Mental training is one of the most basic and most applied intervention for athletes specially in competetive sports and main instrument of athletes tactic and skill. Relaxtion trainings are one of the most applied types of mental training.
Methods and materials: In this study 23 karate child and teenager practioners have been examined. these people were selected as available samples and had been put in two groups of 12 people(exmperiment) and 11 people(control). Participants filled “sport anxiety scale-2 for children and teenagers” questionnaire. Relaxation intervention performed in 8 sessions for group. After 8 sessions all participants took part in a post-test.
Findings: Results have shown that both groups had no diffrence in sport anxiety and comptetive function. Also in subscales of “somatic anxiety” and “concentration disruption” there was no meaningful difference, but in “worry” subscale the groups were diffrent. The group which have recieved mental relaxation training intervention, had shown less worry.
Conclusion: Mental training (in kind of relaxation techniques ) is a suitable way to reduce worry of child and teenager karate practiones in case when worry is accounted as an important factor in atheletic comptetitions.
Key words: Mental Training, Relaxation, Competitive Anxiety, Karate, Children and Teenagers