Competitive anxiety is an important issue in sport psychology since it capable of influencing athletes’ performance. This study aims to examine the role emotion regulation and personality explaining individual differences competitive athletes, considering their sex modality. A total 101 athletes (50.5% males), aged between 18 69 years (M = 26.22; SD 0.99), were included this cross-sectional stu...

Although DSM-IV criteria for anxiety disorders include physiological symptoms, these symptoms are evaluated exclusively by verbal report. The current review explores the background for this paradox and tries to demonstrate on theoretical and empirical grounds how it could be resolved, providing new insights about the role of psychophysiological measures in the clinic. The three-systems approach...

Anxiety is recognized one of the main factor that reduces athlete’s performance in games and sports but its depend on the nature of anxiety, So many psychological studies and lot of researchers and their research evidences support that high levels of anxiety can have a deteriorating effect on an individual athlete or team performance. This research paper was carried out to examine possible sign...

OBJECTIVE This study explored the value of preoperative self-reported assessment for depression and anxiety in patients who had undergone heart transplantation (HTx). The initial sample was divided into subgroups of patients with ischemic (ICMP) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP). Patient depression and anxiety scores were measured in both subgroups and their impact on pre- and postoperative mor...

This study investigated relationships between the intensity (i.e. level) and direction (i.e. interpretation of anxiety as either debilitative or facilitative) dimensions of multidimensional competitive trait anxiety and the two mood structures of Positive (PA) and Negative Affect (NA). The Competitive Trait Anxiety Inventory-2, minus the self-confidence subscale and modified to include a direct...

The purpose of this investigation was to study the physiological and psychological states of 16 tennis players (8 males, 8 females) during the day of the first match of a tennis tournament and their relation to performance. Athletes completed the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2, including both intensity and direction subscales prior to the first match and collected saliva for cortisol ana...

the aim of this study was to investigate the mental health state of high school students of hamideyh branch ahvaz city. the present survey was an analytical study. a sample of 305 (93 girl and 212 boy) students was selected using random stratified sampling and proportion and base of krejcie and morgan table from primary to college years high school students in suburb of ahvaz township and compl...

deafness is a common neural-sensory impairment which leads to lower life quality, withdrawal, social activities reduction, and rejection feeling. so, it is important to plan suitable training programs for mental health promotion of deaf children. emotional intelligence training is one of these programs. the present study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotional intelligence trainin...

The matching hypothesis proposes that interventions for anxiety should be matched to the modality in which anxiety is experienced. This study investigated the relevance of the matching hypothesis for anxiety interventions in tennis. Elite junior tennis players (N = 100; Age: M = 13.9 yr., SD = 1.8 yr.) completed the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 before and after one of four randomly ass...