Competitive Anxiety Differences Between Different Age Group in Handball : Undergraduate Thesis

Istraživanje je izvršeno na 32 rukometašice koje nastupaju za seniorsku (RK „Lokomotiva“, Zagreb) te kadetsku (RK „Split“, Split) uzrasnu kategoriju. Cilj istraživanja bio je utvrditi razlike u prednatjecateljskoj anksioznosti rukometašica različitih dobnih skupina. Za istraživanje se koristio standardni anketni upitnik koji se uobičajeno koristi za procjenu natjecateljske anksioznosti u sportu. Izvršena je deskriptivna statistika i analiza varijance kojom se pokušala utvrditi razlika između dviju skupina različite dobi. Očekivalo se da će seniorke imati puno više samopouzdanja od kadetkinja, odnosno da su godine treniranja i igranja podigle samopouzdanje seniorkama. Međutim, u ovom istraživanju nisu dobiveni takvi rezultati. Rezultati pokazuju da ne postoje statistički značajne razlike između samopouzdanja seniorki i kadetkinja, te da razlike postoje kod somatske i kognitivne anksioznosti, ali da te razlike također nisu značajne. Razlog tome svakako može biti važnost utakmica koje su odigravane jer dosadašnja istraživanja ukazuju da je iznimno bitno da li je anketni upitnik ispunjavan prije utakmice od značaja igračima ili prije utakmice koja je manje važna ili potpuno nevažna igračima.The research was conducted on 32 handball players performing for senior ( HC “Lokomotiva", Zagreb) and cadets ((HC “Split", Split) category. The aim of the research was to determine the differences in the pre-competition anxiety of female handball players of different age groups. The research used a standard questionnaire that is commonly used to assess competitive anxiety in sports. Descriptive statistics and variance analysis were used to find the difference between two groups of different ages. It was expected that the senior female handball players would have much more self-confidence than the cadets, that is, that the years of training and playing have raised the self-confidence of the senior female handball players. However, no such results have been obtained in this research. The results demonstrate that there is no statistically significant difference between self-confidence between senior and cadet female handball players, and that there are differences in somatic and cognitive anxiety, but these differences are also not significant. The reason for this may be the importance of the matches that have been played, since the current research suggests that it is extremely important whether the questionnaire was filled before the game of importance to the players or before the game that is less important or completely irrelevant to the players