The Comparison of Elite Wrestlers’ State of Anxiety Before-after Weighing

Veysel Küçük¹, Ünsal Tazegül^2, , Hamdi Sancaklı¹, Mehmet Haşim Akgül³ and A. Serdar Yücel⁴

¹Marmara University, School of Physical Education and Sports, İstanbul, Turkey

²GaziUniversity, School of Physical Education and Sports, Ankara, Turkey

³Mehmet Akif Ersoy, University, School of Physical Educationand Sports, Burdur, Turkey

⁴Fırat University, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Elazig, Turkey

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Veysel Küçük, Ünsal Tazegül, Hamdi Sancaklı, Mehmet Haşim Akgül and A. Serdar Yücel. The Comparison of Elite Wrestlers’ State of Anxiety Before-after Weighing. American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2015; 3(2):35-38. doi: 10.12691/AJSSM-3-2-2

Abstract

Anxiety is one the significant factor which affects performance of athletes in a negative way. The purpose of this research is to compare elite wrestlers’ state of anxiety before-after weighing. A state of anxiety inventory developed by Spielberg and adapted to Turkishby Ömer and Le Compte has been used in order to detect wrestlers’ state of anxiety before-after weighing. SSPS 20 package software has been used while analyzing the data on this research. After it has been stated that datum has both an homogenous and normal distribution; it has been decided that parametric test method should be used in statistic analysis. In statistic analysis, diagnostic statistic and co-sample t test has been implemented. On the consequence of these analyses, the wrestlers’ state of anxiety before weighing has been higher than the state of anxiety that wrestlers have after weighing.

Keywords

state of anxiety, wrestlers, weighing

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