Competitive anxiety, fear of failure, and decision-making styles in university athletes
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Appropriate and quick decision-making is crucial to the success of athletes, so this study aims to explore the effect competitive anxiety and fear of failure on the decision-making style of university athletes by observing differences based on the level of competition, namely national, regional, and local. The descriptive quantitative method was used in this study, which involved 27 university athletes from various sports. The instruments used include the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2R, the Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory, and an adaptation of the Decision Style Questionnaire to measure decision-making style. The results showed that competitive anxiety and fear of failure did not significantly affect the decision-making style of university athletes. However, there are differences in competitive anxiety, fear of failure, and decision-making style patterns based on competition level. National athletes have a higher percentage of decision-making style, while regional athletes have competitive anxiety and fear of failure higher than national and regional athletes. Then local athletes have a lower percentage of competitive anxiety, fear of failure, and decision-making style.
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