Oral / Poster Presentation File
1M.A of Sport Psychology
2Department of Motor Behavior and Sport Psychology, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Arak University, Arak 38156-8-8349, Iran
3Associate Professor, Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Arak University, Arak, Iran
Background and Aim of the study: Psychological needs, the use of coping dimensions such as behavioral, cognitive and motor mechanisms in athletes in collision and non-collision disciplines are different. Exercise addiction, competitive anxiety and aggression are important components in the performance of athletes, their physical and mental health, so the study and comparison of these factors in sports communities is very important. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of exercise addiction on post-competitive anxiety and aggression in athletes in confrontational and non-collision disciplines.
Research Methodology: The present study was a post-event with a causal-comparative design. Participants in this study were female athletes in individual disciplines with an age range of 20-30 years in Arak. From female athletes in individual disciplines (collision and non-collision) 99 people were selected by available methods from swimming, badminton, karate, etc. In order to evaluate athletes from the short-form exercise addiction list (Terry, Sezabo and Griffith, 2004) to measure exercise addiction, Competitive Anxiety Questionnaire (Coxo et al., 2003) and to assess anxiety and aggression questionnaire (Christoforidis et al. , 2010) was used. All statistical analyzes were performed using SPSS software version 19. Spearman correlation coefficient test was used to test the research hypotheses.
Results: The results of the present study showed that athletes in the disciplines of practice addiction and anxiety experience more competition than athletes in non-practice disciplines, but no significant difference was observed between exercise addiction and aggression and competitive anger between the two groups.
Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that exercise addiction has an effect on competitive anxiety in confrontational athletes and increases it, but has no effect on the aggression of athletes in both confrontational and non-confrontational groups.
