The Relationship between Sport Self-efficacy Inter-mediator and Perfectionism and Competitive Anxiety among Top Football League Athletes of Hamedan Province

Authors : Saeed Saheb Bayati, Gholamreza Khaksary, Majid Soleyman

Pages : 126-139

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Publication Date : 2018-06-22

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Present study was carried out to reveal the relationship between sport self-efficacy intermediator and perfectionism among athletes of top football league of Hamedan province. This study was applied, descriptive and correlative type and it was quantitative in terms of data collection method. The statistical community of present study consisted of all footballers in top football league of Hamedan province in 2016. Given the point that there are 10 teams in top league of Hamedan province, thus, the statistical society of this study included 220 athletes. The statistical sample consisting of 140 athletes were chosen in random using Morgan and Kerjsi table. Results indicate that there is a significant relationship between sport self-efficacy inter-mediator and perfectionism and competitive anxiety of football athletes of Hamedan province. On the other hand, a significant relationship is observed among all three variables of sport self-efficacy, competitive anxiety, and perfectionism. Also, the components of perfectionism had the ability to predict sport self-efficacy and competitive anxiety and also components of sport self-efficacy were capable of predicting competitive anxiety.
Keywords : sport self-efficacy, perfectionism, competitive anxiety