Personality, anxiety and stress in basketball players

Abstract

Self - confidence and self - efficacy are studied as personality variables related with anxiety and stress in sport . The main aim of this project is to discover the relation between these variables in a sample of selected basketball players . The expected results are that athletes with lower punctuation in self - confidence and self - efficacy are supposed to get a higher punctuation in stress and anxiety . PY - BTPD - S ( Batería de Test Psicológicos para Deportistas ) is given to 22 players in order to measure the effect of these variables . Regarding the data analysis, once the Pearson’s correlations were calculated, the relation between the four variables was not significant but positive . Then, the anxiety scale was divided into two subscales : cognitive anxiety and physiological anxiety . The physiological anxiety was correlated significantly p= 0 , 05 with self - efficacy . As a conclusion, it is believed that individuals interpreted the physiological sensations of anxiety as symptoms that are activated during competition . For this reason, they obtained a higher punctuation in self - efficacy