A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANXIETY OF SENIOR AND JUNIOR NATIONAL MALE POWER LIFTERS

Abstract

Aim: The Study aimed to compare the anxiety of senior national and junior national male
POWER LIFTERS. Methods: The Study was delimited to the twenty players (Ten students in
each discipline) who had studied at CSJM University, Kanpur, and were selected randomly as
the subjects for the study. The age of the subjects ranged from 20 to 30 years. The study was
further delimited to anxiety assessment using the Sports Competition Anxiety Questionnaire
developed by Rainer Martens. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference
between the Senior NATIONAL and Junior NATIONAL Male POWER LIFTERS. To analyze the
data, a t-test was employed to compare the anxiety of senior national and junior national male
POWER LIFTERS. Result: There was a significant difference between the means of Senior
NATIONAL and Junior NATIONAL MALE POWER LIFTERS on the anxiety scores since the
obtained value of 't' (48.20) was higher than the tabulated value. Conclusion: The Anxiety of the
Senior NATIONAL player was found to be higher than that of the Junior NATIONAL MALE
POWER LIFTERS.