Predicting competitive anxiety based on perfectionism, achievement motivation and Ego Strengths in physical education students

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seyyed mehdi sarkeshikiyan ¹ , Mehsa Sadat Sarkeshikiyan ²

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2 - Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kashan, Iran

Received: 2024-11-07 Accepted : 2024-12-25 Published : 2024-12-28

Keywords: competitive anxiety, perfectionism, progress motivation, ego empowerment, physical education students,

Abstract :

Introduction: The purpose of the research was to predict competitive anxiety based on perfectionism, progress motivation and Ego Strengths in physical education students. Research implementation

research methodology: This research was one of the basic researches and of the descriptive-correlation type. The statistical population of the present study included all students of physical education at Azad University, branch of Qom province. The size of the sample was considered to be 200 people who were included in the research by available sampling method. To collect data from the state-competitive anxiety questionnaire by Martens et al. (1990), the multidimensional perfectionism scale of Hewitt and Felt (1991), the Ego Strengths questionnaire by Markstrom et al. (1997), the achievement motivation questionnaire by Hermans (1977) was used to measure and collect data. The collected data were analyzed by correlation matrix and regression method. SPSS26 software was used for data analysis

Findings: The determination coefficient of the model was estimated as 0.347. This means that 34.7% of the changes in the competitive anxiety variable are explained and predicted based on perfectionism, progress motivation and Ego Strengths in the model. Also, the t-statistic value of the independent variables of perfectionism (2.782), motivation to progress (2.925) and Ego Strengths (3.851) was estimated to be above 1.96, which showed the confirmation of the research hypotheses.

Conclusion: : Based on the research findings of perfectionism, progress motivation and Ego Strengths have the power to predict competitive anxiety.

Key words: competitive anxiety, perfectionism, progress motivation Ego Strengths, physical education students

 

 

 

Key words: competitive anxiety, perfectionism, progress motivation and ego empowerment, physical education students

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