Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition

Self-confidence is an athlete 's beliefthat he or she can successfully execute and carry out an appropriate performance. Many researches indicated that high level of self confidence among elite athletes enhance performance. In many research reviews, researchers have found that low level of self...

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Main Authors:	Vincent A. Parnabas, Yahaya Mahamood, Julinamary Parnabas
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Perkembangan Pelajar ,U.K.M 2013
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6791/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6791/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6791/1/25.DOC

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spelling	ukm-67912014-01-07T03:51:12Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6791/ Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition Vincent A. Parnabas, Yahaya Mahamood, Julinamary Parnabas, Self-confidence is an athlete 's beliefthat he or she can successfully execute and carry out an appropriate performance. Many researches indicated that high level of self confidence among elite athletes enhance performance. In many research reviews, researchers have found that low level of self confidence had deteriorating effect on athletes 'or teams performance. Elite athletes are well-known for high self confidence levels. However, to date there has been no attempt to examine self confidence level among athletes of nori--elite. Most of the previous researches focus on elite athletes, while ignoring less successful athletes. Therefore, the main aim of the study was to describe and compare the self-confidence level differences among different categories of skills of athletes. The present study also compared the level of self confidence among gender. Data was collected from 205 student-athletes, using a 27 item Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2, during MASUM (Sport between Universities) competition. The results showed that national level athletes obtained the highest score on self-confidence. Furthermore, university and district level athletes exhibit the lowest level of self-confidence. The result also showed that male student- athletes obtained higher score on self confidence compared females. Based on the current results, it is recommended that sport psychologists, sport counselors and coaches in Malaysia use the findings to design appropriate training programs to help district, university level and female athletes to acquire higher level of self confidence to enhance their performance in sports. Pusat Perkembangan Pelajar ,U.K.M 2013-12 Article PeerReviewed application/msword en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6791/1/25.DOC Vincent A. Parnabas, and Yahaya Mahamood, and Julinamary Parnabas, (2013) Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition. Jurnal Personalia Pelajar (16). pp. 25-30. ISSN 0128-2735 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/jpppp/?page_id=12
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description	Self-confidence is an athlete 's beliefthat he or she can successfully execute and carry out an appropriate performance. Many researches indicated that high level of self confidence among elite athletes enhance performance. In many research reviews, researchers have found that low level of self confidence had deteriorating effect on athletes 'or teams performance. Elite athletes are well-known for high self confidence levels. However, to date there has been no attempt to examine self confidence level among athletes of nori--elite. Most of the previous researches focus on elite athletes, while ignoring less successful athletes. Therefore, the main aim of the study was to describe and compare the self-confidence level differences among different categories of skills of athletes. The present study also compared the level of self confidence among gender. Data was collected from 205 student-athletes, using a 27 item Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2, during MASUM (Sport between Universities) competition. The results showed that national level athletes obtained the highest score on self-confidence. Furthermore, university and district level athletes exhibit the lowest level of self-confidence. The result also showed that male student- athletes obtained higher score on self confidence compared females. Based on the current results, it is recommended that sport psychologists, sport counselors and coaches in Malaysia use the findings to design appropriate training programs to help district, university level and female athletes to acquire higher level of self confidence to enhance their performance in sports.
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author	Vincent A. Parnabas, Yahaya Mahamood, Julinamary Parnabas,
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author_facet	Vincent A. Parnabas, Yahaya Mahamood, Julinamary Parnabas,
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title	Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition
title_short	Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition
title_full	Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition
title_fullStr	Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition
title_full_unstemmed	Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition
title_sort	student-athletes 'self confidence level during masum competition
publisher	Pusat Perkembangan Pelajar ,U.K.M
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Student-athletes 'self confidence level during MASUM competition

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