title: Relationships between multidimensional competitive state anxiety and cognitive and motor subcomponents of performance.
abstract: This study examined the relationship between multidimensional competitive state anxiety and cognitive (i.e. digit span) and motor (i.e. perceptuo-motor speed) subcomponents of performance in an experimental group of hockey players during the period leading up to an important hockey match, and also in a control group of hockey players before a routine training session. Using a 'time-to-event' experimental paradigm, an increase in somatic anxiety 20 min before the hockey match was accompanied by improved perceptuo-motor speed performance. Stepwise multiple regression analyses showed that somatic anxiety was negatively related to digit span performance, whilst somatic anxiety and self-confidence were positively related to perceptuo-motor speed performance. These findings suggest that somatic anxiety may be an important source of performance variance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cale
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety; D003071:Cognition; D006688:Hockey; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012649:Self Concept