Relação entre ansiedade pré-competitiva, idade e experiência em atletas de nado artístico

Loane Ady Chiaretto Tigrinho; Juliana Pazini; Karini Borges dos Santos

doi:10.46642/efd.v30i330.8353

Loane Ady Chiaretto Tigrinho Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2062-4395
Juliana Pazini Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2172-0248
Karini Borges dos Santos Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4815-7774

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46642/efd.v30i330.8353

Abstract

Introduction: Artistic swimming is an aquatic sport that combines swimming skills with elements of dance and gymnastics, making it a challenging artistically demanding sport. As a result, many athletes suffer from anxiety in the moments leading up to their competition, known as pre-competitive anxiety. Objective: To analyze the level of pre-competitive anxiety in artistic swimming competitions. Methods: Twenty-six artistic swimming athletes of both sexes (17 ± 4.92 years old and 7 ± 5.17 years of competitive experience) participated in the study. To measure the level of anxiety, the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory questionnaire, translated and validated into Portuguese, was applied just before participating in a Paraná championship (October 2023) or the Brazilian Championship (June 2024). The instrument consists of 16 questions, with answers ranging from 1 to 4 and a return window for cognitive anxiety and self-confidence of 5 to 20, and 6 to 24 for somatic anxiety. Results: The mean score for cognitive anxiety was 14.08 (±3.58); somatic anxiety 14.81 (±4.56) and self-confidence 13.31 (±3.32). Thus, the results demonstrate that the athletes reported levels slightly above average for cognitive anxiety and self-confidence and close to average for somatic anxiety. Conclusion: Knowledge of this information is essential as a subsidy in the promotion of strategies to manage cognitive and somatic anxiety, as well as the promotion of ideal levels of self-confidence to optimize the performance of the artistic swim.

Keywords: Anxiety, Athlete, Water sports, Sports performance

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