Competitive Anxiety and Mindfulness

Abstract

Competitive anxiety is a sport psychology theoretical widely interested and continuely researched topic. M opstly, the research has emphased on time preceding competition which can be separated into one of three feild of area: the relationships of trait and state anxiety to athelete's performance, the effectiveness of controlling anxiety intervention to increase p erformance, and precursors of anxiety. This article review focused on elucidating potential mechanisms of competitive anxiety, which precursors is the perception of threat. And also explained the new sport psychological training approaches, Mindfulness is chances effective and useful for physiological and psychological treatment, which is cognitive mechanisms that inhibit/disturb to thinking and control in thought mechanisms in the present while there is no worry about the future, and not worthy to the past. Consequence, uncertainty occur from competitive and outcome importance therefore no disturbing the minds of athletes in training or during sports competition. Summarized, there are needed for the future study in testing of the relationships of competitive anxiety and mindfulness.