Anxiety and Enhancement of Performance: A Quantitative Investigation on Women Hockey Players

<p><span>The present paper is an investigation to quantify the level of anxiety among the national level female<br>hockey players of India. For that, a survey was conducted among 113 female hockey players in India. Sufficient<br>attention was given to consider the position-wise distribution of them. The Competitive State Anxiety Test - II<br>was used to collect the data on players' cognitive and somatic anxieties and self-confidence. Mean, standard<br>deviation and analysis of variance were calculated in order to compare and describe results. The paper proves<br>that the players were high in their cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confidence as per the norms and<br>no significant difference exist among the players according to their position.</span> </p>