Assessment of hearing-impaired athletes' anxiety and self-perceptions.
70 hearing-impaired basketball players participating in a national basketball tournament completed Neeman and Harter's Self-perception Profile examining their feelings of social acceptance, athletic competence, and global self-worth. In addition, players completed the Sport Competition Anxiety Test for trait anxiety and the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory evaluating their cognitive and somatic anxiety as well as their feelings of self-confidence. Correlations indicated an inverse relationship for subjects' ratings of athletic competence with their scores on trait anxiety and rated cognitive and somatic state anxiety. The correlation between rated self-worth and the subjects' feelings of confidence was low and positive. Results are discussed in relation to achievement-motivation theory.
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Department of Physical and Health Education, University of Akron, OH 44325-5013, USA.
D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001490:Basketball / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010809:Physical Fitness; D012649:Self Concept