Sports competition anxiety among physical education students: A comparative study

The study compares the sports Competition Anxiety of professional physical education students.To serve the purpose of the study, 78 students from both genders were selected from Physical Education.Thirtynine (n=39) Male and thirty-nine (n=39) female physical education students participated.All the students have participated in the intercollegiate competitions and above.The participants were selected on age group between 19 to 25 years.Data was collected on the variable anxiety of students who have participated in sporting events regularly or seasonally.For the purpose of the collection of data sports competition anxiety test (SCAT, Martens 1997) questionnaire was used.The IBM SPSS 26 Version Software was used as a statistical tool to draw conclusions.An independent ''t'' test was employed for statistical analysis and interpretation of data.Descriptive statistics, such as mean, standard deviation, were calculated.A 0.05 level of significance was set to find differences between the selected group. Conclusion:The SCAT scores of females and males PE students was found to be average (n=78, mean=20.10,S. D= 3.982 and SEM=0.451).The SCAT score of female PE student (n=39, mean= 21.21, S. D=4.169) and SCAT score of male PE student (n=39, mean=19.00,S. D= 3.502).The calculated 't' value was 2.529 which is greater than tabulated value 1.99 at degrees of freedom 76.Which showed that there was significant difference in SCAT score between female and male PE student.