Comparison of elite wrestlers' anxiety levels before and after comptition

The purpose of this research is to examine anxiety levels of elite wrestlers before and after Competition (pre/post-match) in terms of different variables. The study has been performed through 19 female, 20 male totally 39 wrestlers who have attended Turkey Wrestling Championship, Adana 2017. The continuous-state anxiety scale, which has been developed by Spielberger and colleagues in 1964 and reliability and validity studies, translated into Turkish by Öner and Le Compte (1983), has been applied to the athletes in this study. SPSS 21.00 package program has been used in the analysis of the data. Frequency distribution has been used for determination of demographic characteristics; T test has been applied for analysing the relationship between two independent variables and the state anxiety level; Anova Warians analysis tests has been used for analysing the relationship between more variables and state anxiety levels. The difference between the variables was interpreted on the basis of p.0,05 significance level. According to the findings, it has been confirmed that there was a significant difference between pre-competition state anxiety levels and gender and wrestling style of wrestlers. It has been also confirmed that there was a significant difference between the state anxiety level before competition and the state anxiety level after competition and also it has been reached that the state anxiety level before the competition was higher than the state anxiety level after competition. It has been found that there were no significant differences between education level, age, and duration of athletic activity, parental education level variables and state anxiety levels of pre-post competition. It has been suggested to determine the level of anxiety that will adversely affect the sporty field performance of the athletes and to reduce the effect to a minimum level by determining the factors leading to high anxiety. It is recommended that wrestler coaches work with experts in the field of psychiatry.