Peculiarities of superstition and anxiety in sports

Research object – individual and team sport athletes superstitious behavior and anxiety in sports modalities. Research aim — determine individual and team sport athletes superstitious behavior and anxiety sport features. The tasks of research: 1. To determine in the athlete's attitudes and prejudices of the benefits of sporting activities. 2. To determine athletes inherent situational anxiety and personality expression. 3. To reveal the interdependence of anxiety and superstition in sports of athletes. The study hypothesis was – athlete's faith in the superstitions associated with performance of athletes at a lower level of anxiety. In the research participated 211 (98 girlsand 113 boys) sporting people with controlling targeting. Among the individual sports 110 patients, team – 101, less skill – 126 athletes, more skill – 85 athletes. Study of sports superstition was used adapted C. Bleak and J. Frederick (1998) scale. It contains 25 statements – a superstition. The examination of athlete's anxiety use the C. Spilgerger (2005) self-assessment scale. The survey showed that nearly half of the athletes is characterized by high levels of situational anxiety, and a little lower part - the average level of situational anxiety. Nearly half said in superstitious, more than a third have a lucky number. Comparing the data by gender, sport, sports practice and mastery of the differences observed. Accordingly, found that nearly half of the athletes is characterized by both high and moderate levels of anxiety, personality. Comparing the data by gender, sport, sports practice and mastery of the differences observed. The study revealed the relationship of anxiety associated with superstitious behavior with the encouragement of other performance events at different levels of anxiety groups. Usefulness of such behavior during the competition the more they believe athletes who characteristic low level of situational anxiety. Similarly, we found links to the anxiety of personality superstitious behavior. It was found that the appearance of caring for the match against the usefulness of further believe the athletes are characteristic of low anxiety personality