Anxiety and Enhancement of Performance: A Quantitative Investigation on Women Hockey Players

The present paper is an investigation to quantify the level of anxiety among the national level female
hockey players of India. For that, a survey was conducted among 113 female hockey players in India. Sufficient
attention was given to consider the position-wise distribution of them. The Competitive State Anxiety Test - II
was used to collect the data on players' cognitive and somatic anxieties and self-confidence. Mean, standard
deviation and analysis of variance were calculated in order to compare and describe results. The paper proves
that the players were high in their cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confidence as per the norms and
no significant difference exist among the players according to their position.