Open AccessPRECOMPETITION ANXIETY AND STRESS IN TENNIS: REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Author(s) -
Vasilios Koronas,
Dragoș Ioan Tohănean,
Konstantinos Salonikidis
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of the "transilvania" university of braşov. series ix, sciences of human kinetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2344-2034
pISSN - 2344-2026
DOI - 10.31926/but.shk.2020.13.62.2.5
Subject(s) - anxiety , athletes , feeling , psychology , victory , competition (biology) , population , stress (linguistics) , variety (cybernetics) , applied psychology , balance (ability) , social psychology , computer science , physical therapy , medicine , political science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience , politics , law , biology , environmental health
The purpose of this project is to examine the impact of competitive stress on tennis athletes and propose solutions for controlling and treating it. Pre-competition stress is a negative feeling for an athlete, which most often comes from expecting a victory. In the present work a general reference is made initially to human stress, which is caused by a variety of factors, whether specific or not, afflicting a large part of the population. Then follows an introduction to the basic features of precompetition anxiety, followed by an observation on the psychological stressrelief skills and how they can be applied. In conclusion, the overcome of the stressful situations depends on maintaining focus of predefined goals, gaining competitive experience and preserve emotional balance during the process.