Comparative Study of Sports Competition Anxiety between North Zone and South Zone Kho-kho Players of All India Inter University

Applications of psychology to sports and athletics are numerous. They focus both on the individual athlete and on the tram. Psychology is increasingly involved with athletes, coaches, and trainers to enhance athletic performance through improved physical and mental training. Knowledge of psychology is essential for understanding each individual's motivation and developing that motivation to an optimal level for athletic performance. In order to facilitate peak performance by athletes, sport psychologists must consider the three different facts of anxiety: cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and selfconfidence. In many sports athletes are expected to deliver perfect performance outcomes, perfectionism in athletes has been shown to be related to characteristics that may undermine performance particularly competition anxiety. Anxiety is a negative emotional state in which feeling of nervousness; worry and apprehension are associated with activation or arousal of the body (Weinberg, 1999). An athlete's mental state has long been thought to play a crucial role in his or her ability to perform sport-specific tasks. Players who are evenly matched in physical skills often rely upon their psychological skills to gain an advantage over their opponents (Covassin, 2004). A complex and contrasting relationship has been highlighted between mood states, anxiety and motor performances (Bolmont et al (2002)., Bolmont (2005) and Vieira et al (2006)]. In tasks with high information content, such as psychomotor abilAbstract: