Achievement goals and gender effects on multidimensional anxiety in national elite sport

Associations between competitive anxiety, athlete characteristics and sport context: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…However, sports specialists argue that female athletes are more anxious than male ones due to the influence of other factors, such as honesty to speak about feelings/emotions 27 , susceptibility to external stimuli 53 , commitment to the sports practicing 62 , susceptibility to pressures from sports environment 82 and greater focus on the risk of failure rather than on achieving success 83 .…”

Coping with the Media at the Vancouver Winter Olympics: “We All Make a Living Out of This”

“…Athletes needed their entire coping repertoire to cope with the more invasive questions and not let them influence their task focus or increase the perception of a performance climate. The negative consequences of the media being perceived as an environmental stressor may be to impose higher anxiety and stress (e.g., Abrahamsen, Roberts, & Pensgaard, 2008) and/or less adaptive coping (e.g., Pensgaard & Roberts, 2003) among the athletes. Clearly, the athletes need help from the coach and the support personnel to create a supportive climate rather than dwelling too much over their media responses and the reported "mistakes."…”

Athletic Anxiety

“…These psychological entities affect performance training and anxiety results of sport participants. 5 Tools such as the Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS-2) have been useful to objectively assess the degree and gender differences. 6,7 So we obviously have a challenge on our hands when we as clinicians look at our athlete patient.…”