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Psychological Characteristics and Performance of National Level Gymnasts

. Mr. Atul Haridas & Dr.K.Kannadasan


Abstract

To achieve the purpose of the present study, eighty (N=45) national level male artistic gymnast from four different zones of India namely who have participated in gymnastics national championships were selected as subjects. The age was considered according to International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), and fixed as 16&above.  The mental toughness was measured using Mental Toughness Questionnaire (MTQ) developed by Loehr et.al, (1992) and the Sports Competitive Anxiety was assessed using SCAT questionnaire developed by Martens (1977). The gymnastics performance was assessed through subjective rating by the experts adopting the FIG norms for all the six events namely floor exercise (10), Table Vault (10), Pommel horse (10), Horizontal bar (10), Parallel Bar (10) and Roman Ring (10). The sum of all the six artistic gymnastics events was considered as the performance score. To determine the relationship of mental toughness and competitive anxiety with gymnastics performance the Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used variables and the level of significance was tested at 0.05 level and the calculations were performed using SPSS version 20. It was concluded that the the mental toughness and gymnastics performance has strong positive correlation. While the competitive anxiety and gymnastics performances were negatively correlated.

Keywords: Mental Toughness, Competitive Anxiety and Gymnasts.

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