A comparative study on competition behavior precompetition anxiety between hill and plain area level university football players

The purpose of the study was to find out Competitive Behavior and Pre-Competition Anxiety between hill and plain area level university football players. Due to the fact that during competition mental state of players greatly affect their stamina explosion, which finally influence the result of final competition. Competitive Behavior and Anxiety in sports is considered to be an important issue for many footballers.  It refers to a sort of nervous and fear emotion formed due to frustration of self-esteem and self- confidence, or increasing of the sense of failure and guilty, which is resulted by the threat from being unable to achieve goals or to overcome obstacles at the right time. For the purpose of the study the subjects were selected randomly from the East Zone Universities which participated in interuniversity tournaments during 2012-13.To measure the Pre-Competition anxiety questionnaire on Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) developed by Rainer Marten and Competitive Behavior was observed by the Competitive Behavior Questionnaire developed by Frank Tyson. 25 hill football players and 25 from plain area university level football players were selected randomly. To find out Pre-Competition Anxiety and Competitive Behavior of hill and plain area university football players’ ‘t’ test was applied. The result shows that there was no significant difference in pre-competition anxiety between hill and plain area level university football players. In other hand the result also shows that there was significant difference in Competitive Behavior between hill and plain area level university football players.