Stress and anxiety among athletes

Pages: 524-526
L. N. Bunker (Department of Psychology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur)

One of the primary causes of stress is believed to be too much emphasis on winning; it is a common-held belief that the “winning at all costs” attitude has been taken too far. Another huge stressor for student athletes is time managementbalancing school and sports is not an easy task, and can prove to be very stressful. Other stressful events can pile on, eventually leading to what has come to be called Burnout Present investigation is an attempt to study Management of Stress, and Anxiety among athletes It was hypothesized that Level of stress and anxiety will be higher among girls athlete as compared to the boys athlete. The influence of Muscular Relaxation Technique and Breathing control will be helpful in reduction of the level of Stress, and Anxiety among girls and boys athlete.Management of Stress, and Anxiety is a set of dependent variable, whereas Muscular Relaxation Technique is a set of independent variable. It is a field experiment in which Muscular Relaxation Technique used in before and after sessions. Anxiety test by Sinha and Sinha (SCAT) (1968), Life Stress Scale, Gunthey (1998) tests were used. 575 students were randomly selected, out of which 200 were finally taken for the present investigation which was further divided into two groups 100 boys and 100 girls athlete. Finding confirms hypotheses.