This study examined the intensity and direction of competitive anxiety symptoms and psychological skill usage in rugby union players of different skill levels. Elite (n=65) and nonelite (n=50) participants completed measures of competitive anxiety, self- confidence, and psychological skills. The elite group reported more facilitative interpretations of competitive anxiety symptoms, higher level...

Goals and Applications Our overall goal is to successfully predict the offensive play-calling decisions of college football coaches. We will attempt to make such predictions on the basis of data from past games and from previous plays in the current game. While there is extensive literature on machine learning in some other sports such as baseball, football has been relatively neglected; furthe...

The aim of this research was to compare the femininity and masculinity traits among athletes. So 45 female and 45 male athletes (+16 yrs) attended at least once in Karate, Volleyball, Futsal, and Aerobic tournament provincial Championships were selected randomly from 360 individuals by Cochran formula. Eysenck femininity and masculinity questionnaire was used to evaluate the subjects. Data were...

We tested the predictive validity of the recently validated three-dimensional model of performance anxiety (Chang, Hardy, & Markland, 2009) with elite tae-kwon-do competitors (N = 99). This conceptual framework emphasized the adaptive potential of anxiety by including a regulatory dimension (reflected by perceived control) along with the intensity-oriented dimensions of cognitive and physiologi...

Objective: To establish the intra-rater reliability of nine content-validated Technical Skill Assessment Instruments (TSAI) for the skills of athletic taping. Setting: University of Calgary. Subjects: Canadian Certified Athletic Therapists, CAT(C), with a mean ± SD of 9.6 ± 10.8 years as a CAT(C), 7.8 ± 10.9 years as a Supervisory Athletic Therapist, 8.5 ± 12.0 years teaching athletic taping sk...

This study investigated the link between physical self-presentation and competitive anxiety in male, master-level, high-board divers (N=84, M age = 29.3 yr., SD = 14.3). Competitive trait anxiety, social physique anxiety, and physical self-presentation confidence were assessed using the Sport Anxiety Scale, Social Physique Anxiety Scale, and the Physical Self-presentation inventory. Stepwise re...