A Comparative Study of Aggression, Anxiety and Personality of State, National and International level Weightlifters

Exploring Aggression, Anxiety, and Personality in Weightlifters at Different Levels

Abstract

This study is aimed to explore the level of aggression, anxiety and personality of state,national and international level weightlifters. Aggression, anxiety and personality factor is important toenhance the overall performance of an individual. The main objective of this study was to observe thecomparison of above-mentioned factors between state, national and international level weightlifters. Atotal of 60 (20 state level, 20 national level and 20 international level weightlifters) subjects were taken forthis study. Comparison of data have been shown in this by using statistical analysis (ONE-WAY ANOVAPOSTHOC TEST). Anxiety in sports is considered as an important issue for many athletes. It refers to asort of nervous and fear emotion formed by frustration of self-esteem and self- confidence, or increasingof the sense of failure and guilty, which is resulted by the threat from being unable to achieve goals or toovercome obstacles at the right time. In sport, aggression is a characteristic that can have manynegative as well as positive effects on performance. Healthy aggression can help a team out-physical anopponent, generate crowd enthusiasm, and create anxiety within the minds of the opponent. Whenathletes participate in competitive sport, their underlying personality characteristics inevitably contributeto how they behave. Personality has been defined as ‗‗psychological qualities that contribute to anindividual‘s enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving‘‘. Within the boundariesand based on the results it is obvious that there is a significant difference in anxiety level of state andinternational level, but no difference in national level weightlifters. With the analysis, it can be said thatthere is no significant difference in personality factors of state, national and international levelweightlifters but the aggression level shows no significant difference in state and national groups butshows a difference in national international level weightlifters.