RT Journal Article
T1 Competitive Anxiety in Young Basketball Players from the Real Madrid Foundation
A1 Ortega Vila, Gema
A1 Robles Rodríguez, José
A1 Giménez Fuentes-Guerra, Francisco Javier
A1 Abad Robles, Manuel Tomás
AB Competition during the sports training process should aid young athletes’ overalldevelopment. The aim of this study was to ascertain the levels of competitive anxiety in athletes whopractice basketball at the Real Madrid Foundation (RMF)’s Social-Sports Schools, and to analyzewhether any differences exist in regard to anxiety in the various subscales that take into account gender,participation in the RMF’s internal competitions, and basketball modalities (mini basketball/basketball).The study sample consisted of 320 players (224 boys and 96 girls) belonging to the followingdi erent age groups: 8–9-year-olds, 10–11-year-olds, 12–13-year-olds, and 14–15-year-olds (M = 10.54;SD = 1.92). The Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS-2) was used in the version translated and validatedin Spanish. It was found that the athletes displayed low levels of competitive anxiety in all threesubscales. No significant di erences were observed between the genders, nor between basketballmodalities (mini basketball/basketball). Finally, a positive correlation was observed between thevarious subscales.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2020
FD 2020-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17977
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17977
LA eng
NO Ortega Vila, G., Robles Rodríguez, J., Giménez Fuentes-Guerra, F. J. ...  Abad Robles, M. T. (2020). Competitive Anxiety in Young Basketball Players from the Real Madrid Foundation. Sustainability, 12(9), 3596. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093596
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RD 1 jun 2026