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  • Title: Analysis of the effect of competitive trait anxiety on performance in Taekwondo competition.
    Author: Finkenberg ME, DiNucci JM, McCune ED, McCune SL.
    Journal: Percept Mot Skills; 1992 Aug; 75(1):239-43. PubMed ID: 1528673.
    Abstract:
    This study examined the effect of competitive trait anxiety on performance in open- (sparring) and closed- (forms) skills in Taekwondo. 58 subjects responded to the Sports Competition Anxiety Test immediately prior to competition. Subjects were categorized into groups showing high, medium, and low competitive anxiety to assess whether differences on the variables of sparring and forms were significantly related with scores on competition anxiety, age, or gender after adjusting for the covariate of years of competition. Multivariate analysis of covariance showed no significant differences between subjects and the normative samples on competitive anxiety scores except for boys, whose scores were significantly higher than those of a normative sample of male youth athletes.
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