Effect of Yogic Training on Sports Competitive Anxiety Among Female and Male Boxers

the objective of the present study was to compare male and female boxers on sports competitionanxiety after 6 weeks of yogic training.Methodology: for the purpose of the study 20 male (10 nos.) and female (10 nos.) with age ranging from 14to 17 year of age were selected. The Sports Competition Anxiety measured by Sport Competition Anxiety Test(SCAT) questionnaire developed by Hypnosis works in the year of 2006 was used to assess the anxiety levelof boxers. The descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, maximum and minimum were used todescribe the data and for the comparison between the male and female boxers on sports anxiety after sixweeks of yogic training the ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) was employed at .05 level of significance.Results; the mean score of both male and female (20.02 and 20.18) is above the average level and the presentfinding also shows that there is no significant difference between male and female boxers on competitiveanxiety after six weeks of yogic training.