Can psychological characteristics, football experience, and player status predict state anxiety before important matches in Danish elite-level female football players?

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
Esben Elholm MadsenJohan Wikman

Abstract

Elite football can make players' feel nervous, and personality characteristics, as well as experience, affect how well pressure is handled before important games. Studying the psychological characteristics of female football players can provide information on how well psychological pressure is handled and provide knowledge on how to support players in order to improve performance. Based on a sample of 128 female elite football players from 8 top-level teams, the present study investigates whether psychological characteristics, football experience / player status in elite female football players can predict state anxiety before important matches. Our results outline that high age and national team experience negatively predicted most of the trait anxiety subscales. In line with previous research no psychological differences were found between goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and strikers while starting players revealed to have significantly lower trait anxiety. When measuring before important matches we found that somatic state anxiety was negatively associated with senior national team experience, and positively associated with worry trait anxiety and fear of failure. Cognitive state anxiety was negatively associated with h...Continue Reading

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