Kecemasan bertanding pada atlet PON Aceh berdasarkan jenis aktivitas olahraga

Abstract

Sport anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervous, and uneasy by assuming sport as something harmful followed by physiological changes. As an athlete who has demand of achievements, sport anxiety becomes a condition which often influences the athlete’s performance in facing sport. Based on that background, this research intended to determine the difference of sport anxiety toward the athletes of Pekan Olahraga Nasional (PON) Aceh based on types of sport activities: body contact and non body contact. The sample was 60 athletes (36 males dan 22 females) whom were prepared to compete in PON XIX West Java 2016 with aged range between 17-28 years old. The data was collected by using Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT), and the data was analyzed by using Independent Samples t-test with p value 0.311 (p>0.05), which means there was no differences anxiety toward the athletes of PON Aceh based on the types of sport activities.

Keywords

• sport anxiety
• athletes
• pekan olahraga nasional