The Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management Training On Competitive Anxiety, Sport Self-Confidence and Performance Teenager Female Volleyball Players

The competitive and distressful nature of sports can affect the psychological and motor performance among all of the athletes. Therefore, stress management in athletes is very important for sport and exercise psychologists.The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of cognitive-behavioral stress management training on competitive anxiety, sport self-confidence and performance in teenager female volleyball players.The present study was a semi-experimental study in which ۳۰ teenager female volleyball players were conveniently selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group, learned how to manage stress cognitively-behaviorally, two sessions per week and one session each hour, in addition to volleyball exercises. The control group also performed daily volleyball exercises. The Persian version of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-۲ and the Willie Sport self-Confidence Questionnaire were used to measure cognitive-physical anxiety and sport self-confidence, as well as the AAHPER Volleyball Service test to assess pre-test and post-test performance.After collecting and analyzing the data using one-way analysis of variance, the results showed that cognitive-behavioral stress management training reduced competitive anxiety, increased sport self-confidence and increased performance of teenager volleyball players.It seems that stress management training in a cognitive-behavioral technique, by increasing awareness of emotions and affects, increasing positive thoughts and also accepting excitements and physical phenomena, as it happens, can improve mental skills and motor performance in teenager volleyball players. Therefore, using cognitive-behavioral interventions are recommended to sports coaches and psychologists in the basic category, to improve the players’ psychological and functional levels.

کلیدواژه ها:

Competitive anxiety ، self-confidence ، Performance ، stress ، Cognitive-behavioral