A Comparative Study of Anxiety of Senior and Junior International Female Weight Lifters

Aim: The Purpose of the study was to compare the Anxiety between Senior International and Junior International Female weight lifters. Methods: The study was delimited to the twenty players (Ten student in each discipline) who had study CSJM University, Kanpur were selected randomly as the subjects for the study. The age of the subjects were ranging from 15 – 30 years. The Study was further delimited to the assessment of Anxiety by using Sports Competition Anxiety Questionnaire developed by Rainer Martens. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference between the Senior International and Junior International Female weight lifters. For the purpose of analysis of data ‘t’ test was employed to compare the Anxiety between Senior International and Junior International Female weight lifters. Result: There was a significant difference between the means of Senior International and Junior International Female weight lifters on the scores of Anxiety since the obtained value of 't' (48.20) was higher than the tabulated value. Conclusion: The Anxiety of Senior International player was found to be higher than the Junior International Female weight lifters.