A research on anxiety and self-confidence levels of adolescent athletes in accordance with some variables: An example of athlete training centers

In this study, it is aimed to search the level of the anxiety and the self confidence levels of adolescent athletes from the perspective of some predefined variables. With this research, it is tried to specify the diversity of the of the anxiety and the self confidence levels of adolescent athletes from the perspective of gender, age, training center and branch. A number of 119 adolescent athletes, who are training on athletics, wrestle and gym from Bolu, Mersin and Adana training centers, formed the sample of the study. In data collection phase, Competitive State Anxiety Inventory (C.S.A.I.-2) and a demographic questionnaire were used. Appropriateness of the variables for parametric tests has been evaluated by Shapiro-Wilk test. Since the number of the athletes in every cell is less then 50, the variables have been evaluated by Shapiro-Wilk test. The Kruskal-Wallis test has been used while researching the correlation between demographic variables and self confidence levels. On the other hand, analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been used while searching the correlation between levels of anxiety and the self confidence. A statistical difference between the cognitive anxiety levels was found from the age perspective as a conclusion of the study. Also some statsistically meaningful differences were found among cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self confidence levels. The result of the high correlation among cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self confidence levels has been found. Some suggestions have been introduced paralel to the reults. Keywords: Adolescent Athlete, Performance, Cognitive Anxiety, Self-Confidence, Somatic Anxiety