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

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    Author/Creator
    Sweet, Aaron D.
    Date
    2011-05
    Type of Work
    26 p.
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    action research papers
    Program
    Masters of Education
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    Collection 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.
    Subjects
    Education -- Research papers (Graduate)
    Goal (Psychology) -- Research
    Anxiety in women -- Research
    Lacrosse players -- Research
    Abstract
    The 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.


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    Goucher College
    1021 Dulaney Valley Road
    Baltimore, MD 21204

    www.goucher.edu

    Contact Information:
    kristen.welzenbach@goucher.edu
    library.goucher.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.