The Effect of Using Goal Setting in Reducing the Pre-Competitive Anxiety of Division I College Female Lacrosse Athletes

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dc.contributor.authorSweet, Aaron D.
dc.contributor.programMasters of Educationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-09T20:41:34Z
dc.date.available2016-03-09T20:41:34Z
dc.date.issued2011-05
dc.descriptionTo see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to examine whether goal setting could reduce the pre-competitive anxiety of college female lacrosse athletes. This was a quasi-experimental study, which follows the pre-test, post-test design for a control and experimental group. The measurement tool was the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory Revised (CSAI-2R). The ten participants in this study were Division I female lacrosse players from Loyola University, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty two years old. Five players were conveniently chosen by the coach to receive goal setting as their treatment over four-weeks and five players were chosen to be in the control group receiving no treatment. At the conclusion of the four-week study, a two-tailed independent samples t-test was conducted to determine if the mean differences in somatic anxiety, cognitive anxiety and self-confidence between the control and experimental groups were statistically significant. Results indicated that the differences between those means were not statistically significant, but both groups' self-confidence levels did increase as a result of the study.en_US
dc.format.extent26 p.en_US
dc.genreaction research papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M27J1Q
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/2474
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relationMaster of Education
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.rightsCollection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.
dc.subject.lcshEducation -- Research papers (Graduate)
dc.subject.lcshGoal (Psychology) -- Research
dc.subject.lcshAnxiety in women -- Research
dc.subject.lcshLacrosse players -- Research
dc.titleThe Effect of Using Goal Setting in Reducing the Pre-Competitive Anxiety of Division I College Female Lacrosse Athletesen_US
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