Keywords
causes of sport success
goal orientation
addiction
intrinsic satisfaction
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Abstract
We carry out an analysis of precompetitive anxiety in the growing number of Spanish master athletes. In addition, we evaluate which variables, including motivation, addiction intrinsic satisfaction, perception and beliefs about sporting success, are related to anxiety and which can be used to predict it. Significant differences were found between women and men, the former displaying higher results in terms of intrinsic motivation and somatic anxiety, and the latter in terms of self-confidence. We discuss the results and conclude that the moderate anxiety suffered is linked to the amount of pressure that they wish to impose upon themselves, stemming from expectation of the record or place they hope to reach in a competition situation. This causes them to practice their sport for many years, and they truly enjoy their training, pushing themselves by improving their technical ability in their chosen athletic speciality, which in turn generates high self-confidence and would improve performance. For this reason, they frequently achieve records in competition which they did not reach in the past, increasing their expectations of success and sense of competence, above all if they beat their rivals. Consequently, boredom and deceptive techniques barely exist within this group.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.