The Interrelationship among Anxiety, Arousal and Performance in Sports.

Among emotional factors, anxiety is known to have the most strong effects on performance in sports events. Moreover, the degree of motor performance largely depends upon that of arousal level that serves to counteract anxiety or stress. The purpose of present study is to examine and analyze the anxiety degree and arousal level which have been thought to have powerful influence upon almost all the outcomes of all sports events. In this study, various concepts of anxiety, stress and arousal level are discussed, and the interrelationship among these three factors and performance is carefully examined. Furthermore, extensive discussion is also carreed out about the methods how to measure, control and regulate anxiety. In practice, it is recommendable for educators and trainers to have a thorough knowledge about these main concepts and interrelationship, which would enable them to understand the very nature of every athelete and to give him the opportunity to make use of his own competence. In this sense, in order to overcome emotional obstacles in sports, every athelete needs a special training which would help him to control and regulate himself. Major contents of this study can be summarized as follows: 1) Interrelationship between anxiety and performance, 2) Arousal level and motor performance. 3) Other factors having something to do with performance. 4) Measurement of anxiety. 5) Control and regulation of anxiety, and other theories recently proposed