This research purpose was to analyze the relationship between anxiety and mental toughness among athlete students. A quantitative method with correlation design was used in this research. Subjects of this research were one hundred and twenty-eight athlete students. All participant were athlete students at State Senior High School of Sport or namely SMANOR in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. There were seventy eight male and fifty female. The average age of participants was sixteen and half years old. Data were collected using two instruments: An adapted Sport Anxiety Scale with unfavorable score to measure an anxiety, A mental toughness scales to measure mental toughness. The research result indicates that there was a significant relationship between anxiety and mental toughness with coefficient correlation zero point seventy-five. These results can be interpreted that the higher the level of anxiety, the lower the level of mental toughness is. This is because of anxiety make athlete students have bad feeling and negative emotion that influence their mental toughness.
Basically every sport must have high concentration ability. The concentration ability possessed by athletes has an important role for each athlete to maintain performance during a match. The purpose of this study was to determine the profile of concentration on student athletes in shooting sports. Where mental aspects are very important to increase concentration on student athletes. The method in this study used descriptive statistics by using a concentration test instrument namely the Grid Concentration exercise wherein the test kit contained numbers from 00 to 99 where athletes had to sequence numbers from the smallest to the numbers that the biggest. The subjects in this study were student athletes in shooting sports, which amounted to 84 samples consisting of 50 male athletes and 34 female athletes. The results of this study are interesting where the diversity of concentration skills in student athletes shooting villages is influenced by several other mental aspects so that because of the varying levels of concentration of athletes, the trainer must provide appropriate training in increasing the concentration of athlets. shows that in students shooting athletes, athlete concentration.
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