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

The present paper is an investigation to quantify the level of anxiety among the national level femalehockey players of India. For that, a survey was conducted among 113 female hockey players in India. Sufficientattention was given to consider the position-wise distribution of them. The Competitive State Anxiety Test - IIwas used to collect the data on players' cognitive and somatic anxieties and self-confidence. Mean, standarddeviation and analysis of variance were calculated in order to compare and describe results. The paper provesthat the players were high in their cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confidence as per the norms andno significant difference exist among the players according to their position.