Abstract des Autors

This study examined relationships between pre-competitive state anxiety and field position in a sample of 121 soccer and field hockey players. Pre-game state anxiety was measured by use of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (Martens, Vealey & Burton, 1990) 30 minutes before the start of a university level game. Analysis of the data revealed that goalkeepers had significantly higher levels of cognitive anxiety than players in other positions, and were also more somatically anxious and less self-confident than defenders. Of outfield players, midfield and forward players were more somatically anxious than defenders and midfield players were less self-confident than defenders. There were no significant differences on any of the measures between midfield and forward players, nor were there any main sport effects. There were no significant gender differences on cognitive or somatic anxiety, but males were, overall, more self-confident than females. Verf.-Referat