Anxiety Flashcards
(12 cards)
What is anxiety?
A negative emotional state caused because a situation is threatening, it often arises in sport as a result of the performers perception of the situation.
What is somatic anxiety?
Physiological response of performer - sweating, trembling, nausea. Symptoms often reduce when the event has started.
What is cognitive anxiety?
Psychological response/thought and worries of performance in their ability to compete the task - worry, fear of failure. Usually experiences prior to the event.
What is trait anxiety?
A trait within an individual which measures their potential to react with apprehension, someone who easy becomes anxious, even about non threatening situations has high trait anxiety, as with other traits this is disposition is state and genetically inherited. A-trait
What is state anxiety?
Anxiety felt in a particular situation or time, made up of somatic and cognitive anxiety. It is linked to the performers mood and can alter at any moment. A-state
What is competitive state anxiety?
Anxiety levels when in a specific competitive sporting situation.
What is competitive trait anxiety?
The tendency to see competitive situations as threatening and respond with feeling of anxiety in competitive situations.
What is Burtons theory of anxiety?
Relationship between anxiety and performance
What does the inverted U relationship show?
The effect of somatic anxiety on performance
What does the negative linear relationship show?
The effects of cognitive anxiety on performance
When does cognitive anxiety start?
Increases one week before competition, and when performance starts it changes depending on how the start the competition
When does somatic anxiety start?
Tends to be low days before performance, sharp increase just before start of performance, sharp decrease once the event has started
