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Personality Is an Intermediary of Stressful and Anxious Relationships before Women's Swimming Competition

Dao Chanh ThucPhysical Education Department, AnGiang University, Vietnam

Vol 3 No 3 (2019): Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2019 | Pages: 1-5

International Research Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology

OPEN ACCESS | Research Article | Published Date: 01-03-2019

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Abstract

This article is to study the intermediate effect of personal resources in the coordination of the premise of stress (the willingness to perceive competition and the complexity of goals) and anxiety. Settled before playing in the swimmers. Methods: We conducted validation and reconciliation analysis in the context of structural equation model to study cross-sectional survey data of female swimmers (n=79; M = 18.19 years; SD = 1.02). Results: Testing of the model of personality resources showed that the four indicators – self-efficacy, self-control, optimism and grit – constitute a single factor. As a result of intermediate analysis, an indirect part of the personality resource was obtained for the state of pre-competition anxiety. Conclusion: It was established, that personality sources (self-efficacy, self-control, optimism and grit) have a systematic organization and constitute an indispensable element at the level of real indicators experience. They mediate part of the effects of stress factors that compete on the level of situation anxiety, contributing to reducing athletes.

Keywords

stress, pre-competition anxiety, personality resources.


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Dao Chanh Thuc, “Personality Is an Intermediary of Stressful and Anxious Relationships before Women's Swimming Competition”, Published in International Research Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology (IRJIET), Volume 3, Issue 3, pp 1-5, March 2019. 

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