Radovan Cokorilo¹

¹Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja, Novi Sad

RECOGNITION AND DEALING WITH ATHLETES’ ANXIETY

PREPOZNAVANJE I REGULISANJE ANKSIOZNOSTI SPORTISTA

Sport Mont 2009, VI(18-19-20), 51-58

Abstract

The work analizes the impact of excitement, anxiety and stress on athletes. The most common causes of anxiety have been reviewed (increased muscle tension, difficul- ties in movement coordination, differences in attention and concentration levels) and so have the co-factors on the road from excitement to performance: character, the comple- xity of the task, and the presence of an audience. The most important strategies of recog- nition of, and dealing with, anxiety are thus proposed: identification the optimum combi- nation of emotions, recongition of personal and situation-caused factors, recognition of athletes’ anxiety symptoms, individual training strategy and developing self confidence

Keywords

anxiety, sports performance, character, self confidence, individual tra- ining

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