The relationship between competitive trait anxiety and injury of Iranian baseball league players

The influence of psychological factors in the field of sports performance, prevention of sports injuries, sports rehabilitation and as an effective tool for managing stress and anxiety in competitions has been increasingly approved by various researches. The aim of this study was to determine the competitive trait anxiety of baseball players in the Iranian Premier League and to investigate its relationship with sports injuries in them.

The statistical population of the study included 95 male baseball players participating in the Iranian Baseball Premier League, 79 of whom were tested. The personal information questionnaire, Competitive Sports Anxiety Questionnaire (SCAT) and Sports Injury Questionnaire were used to collect research data. To describe the data, descriptive statistics and indicators of central orientation and frequency distribution tables were used and in inferential statistics, independent t-test was used.

The results showed that 58.9% of the injured players had low anxiety, 41.1% of them had moderate competitive anxiety and none of them had high competitive anxiety. On the other hand, all uninjured players (100%) had low competitive anxiety.

The results showed a significant difference between the mean scores of competitive sports anxiety of injured and uninjured baseball players. Therefore, it seems that competitive sports anxiety has a significant relationship with sports injuries in Iranian Premier League baseball players.