Pre-competitive anxiety, group cohesion and residence in women's Futsal athletes

Abstract

Introduction and objective: The present study investigated the level of anxiety, resilience, and cohesion of female athletes from a female futsal team in a short competition. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional study, which was part of the research 12 futsal players of a team that played in the Brazilian University Games in 2017. As instrument was used the pre-competitive anxiety questionnaire (CSAI-2R), the resilience was assessed by the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC10) and group cohesion was assessed by the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ). Data analysis was performed using the Shapiro-Wilk tests, the repeated measure anova test was used to compare the anxiety levels in the games and the Spearman correlation coefficient to verify the correlation between the variables, the significance adopted. was (p<0.05). Results: The results show that the athletes were more anxious in the first game compared (44.50 vs 40.33). Although resilience did not show significant correlation with anxiety scores, it is noted that the coefficients indicated negative and weak to moderate correlation between the variables. Conclusion: It was concluded that the athletes presented a higher level of anxiety in the first game when compared to the others, as well as high levels of group cohesion and resilience. It was evidenced that there is no influence between the dimensions, this result may have been influenced by the low number of participants.