Abstract

The objective of the study was to investigate the impact of level of participation on anxiety and performance among basketball players. Sixty male basketball players representing three different levels that is inter-university, inter-district, inter-club, constituted the sample of the study. Anxiety and performance of the basketball players were selected as the variables of the study. Anxiety was measured by SCAT questionnaire and Performance was measured by rating scale. Descriptive statistics, One-way analysis of variance, LSD Post-hoq test and Pearson product moment Correlation analysis were employed to analyze the data. Significant differences were found among three levels of participation with regard to performance only and anxiety is found to have negative impact on the performance.

Keywords

Anxiety, Basketball performance, Participation Level,

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