007970 Kuljit Kaur;Sharma N P;Dureha D K (Sriram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, Delhi, ) : Relationship between achievement motivation and pre competition anxiety of Indian inter-university hockey players. Scient J Sports Exercise 2007, 3(2), 24-6.
Modern competitive sports of today demands more emphasis on the training of psychological aspect of sport. The high level performance seen in competitive sports is nothing "but a perfect optimum harmonius relationship between one's psychological preparedness and technical preparation. A central issue in modern sports psychology is motivation. Motivation is a process by which an individual is inspired, guided as coaxed to do some thing. It is that psycho-physical education and Sports, no athlete can win or even show better performance without motivation. Motivational factors in athletics and physical activities is concept of need for achievement motivation. Achievement is dependent upon many factors like cultural values, personal motives, personal attributes and environmental conditions. It can be seen that athlete who did care about performance with high achievement need and anxious tended to have his performance disrupted and thus lowered because of additional stress of competition. The subject with low achievement needs were not affected by competition. Thus they were anxious and did not care whether they won or lost. The same lack of change was seen in the subject with high anxiety level and low achievement needs, their anxiety did not apparently centre around their successs or failure in competition situations.
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