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Title:	The relationship between psychological skills and sport anxiety among university student athletes in the Republic of Yemen
Authors:	Faiza Mohammed Ateek Al-Ansi (P50977)
Supervisor:	Tajul Arifin Muhamad, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Keywords:	Psychological skills Sport anxiety University athletes Republic of Yemen Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations
Issue Date:	25-May-2017
Description:	The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between psychological skills and sport anxiety among university student athletes in the Republic of Yemen. The sample consists of 397 university student athletes (278 males, 119 females). For this study, the Test of Performance Strategies (TOPS) and the Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS) are adopted to test psychological skills and sport anxiety, respectively. The statistical analyses used were descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis and the level of significance was set at 0.05. t-test analysis showed that there are some differences in the psychological skills used by male and female athletes during practice and competition. During practice, the females were better than the males in terms of activation. Also, in competition, the females perform better than the males in terms of automaticity, and imagery but male perform better than female in total competition, and TOPS. The differences were found between the locations (North and South Yemen) in the results of the TOPS with regards to the use of psychological skills by north and south in practice and competition. In practice, the student athletes from South Yemen were performing better than the student athletes from North Yemen in terms of attention control. However, in competition student athletes from North Yemen perform better in term of relaxation while, student athletes from South Yemen perform better in term of goal setting. For the age categories, ANOVA indicated in practice there is a slight difference in term of goal setting for third group, whereas for the difference in competition based on years of study, only in term of negative thinking for third year athletes. However, for sport anxiety there were differences only in terms of worry for male, somatic anxiety for female and total sport anxiety for male based on gender. The results of Pearson's correlation coefficient showed that psychological skills were negatively correlated with worry (r = -.344**, ρ <0.00), concentration disruption (r = -.371**, ρ < 0.00), somatic anxiety (r =-.429**, ρ = < 0.00), and total sport anxiety (r = -.444**, ρ < 0.00). In addition Pearson's correlation coefficient indicated the correlation in practice subscales was between AUT with GS (r = .63, p< .000), and GS with IMG (r = .62, p < 0.01), and AUT with EC (r = 60, p <.000). Also, the correlation in competition subscales was between RLX with ST (r = .588, p < .000), ACT with AUT (r = .545, p < .000) and AUT with GS (r = .541, p <.000). The results of the multiple regression analysis showed that there is a significant negative relationship between sport anxiety and activation, emotional control, goal setting and positive relationship between sport anxiety and attention control. The implication was that during practice, activation, emotional control, goal setting and attention control leads to a reduction in sport anxiety. In competition, a difference negative relationship exists between activation and negative thinking. Psychological skills, such as activation, emotional control, goal setting, attention control and negative thinking, were very important to counter sport anxiety and to enhance performance.,Certification of Master's/Doctoral Thesis" is not available
Pages:	270
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Education / Fakulti Pendidikan

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