Relationship competitive state anxiety with the performance of state kho-kho players

The article attempts to examine the relationship among Somatic Anxiety, Cognitive Anxiety and Self-Confidence with the performance of State level Kho-Kho players. The study focuses on Somatic Anxiety, Cognitive Anxiety and Self-Confidence to ensure the playing Kho-Kho ability among State level Kho-Kho players. To achieve the purpose of this study, thirty (N=30) female Kho-Kho players were purposively selected as subjects from State level Kho-Kho competition 2022, held at Noida College of Physical Education, Dhoom Manikpur, G.B Nagar, Uttar Pradesh .Their age ranged from 18 to 27 years (20.17±2.37 years). Descriptive statistics and correlation were used as a statistical technique for the present study. The hypotheses were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation with the help of IBM SPSS (22.00) software. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05. The results of the study show that there is a positive correlation between the Somatic Anxiety, Cognitive Anxiety and Self-Confidence and playing ability of Kho-Kho players. Hence the study concluded that successful performance in Kho-Kho requires the ability to generate Somatic Anxiety, Cognitive Anxiety and Self-Confidence. To achieve desired objective researchers showed that playing ability Kho-Kho players and Somatic Anxiety, Cognitive Anxiety and Self-Confidence was inter related.