Effect of Mindfulness Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) to Reduce competitive state anxiety on Karate Athletes
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Competitive state anxiety influences cognitive, emotional, and athlete behaviour while they have to perform perfectly in a competition. This study was conducted to analyze the effect of Mindfulness Sports Performance Enhancement (MSPE) training on competitive state anxiety of karate athletes in Surabaya. The research method used is quantitative with an experimental design. The sample in this study was 28 Karate athletes from Dojo Shiroite and INKAI in Surabaya. Those samples were selected using quota sampling. The intervention provided was an MSPE intervention adapted from Mindfulness Sports Performance Enhancement (MSPE). The data collection method was carried out using a competitive state anxiety scale adapted from The Revised Competitive State Anxiety Inventory – 2 with 17 items. The data were analyzed by paired t-test with SPSS 26. The result showed a significant decrease in the average competitive state anxiety by 9.25 points. This condition is supported by the decrease in cognitive anxiety and somatic anxiety dimension by 7.76 and 3.86 points. The decrease was also followed by an increase in the self-confidence dimension by 8.21 points. The findings in this study show the importance of continuous mental mindfulness training to improve athlete performance by overcoming competitive state anxiety. This research can also be a reference for practitioners and researchers. MSPE training can be developed as an effort to improve or solve problems related to an athlete's condition.
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The mindfulness component of MAC likely contributes to its effects on somatic anxiety, consistent with research demonstrating negative associations between mindfulness and somatic anxiety.
“The mindfulness component of MAC likely contributes to these effects, consistent with research demonstrating negative associations between mindfulness and somatic anxiety [19, 88, 93].”
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The Hypothesis test result section reports that somatic anxiety fell after MSPE training, supporting a link between a mindfulness-based intervention and reduced somatic anxiety in karate athletes. The Discussion’s limitations state that changes in mindfulness were not measured, so the study does not demonstrate a negative association between mindfulness levels and somatic anxiety or isolate the mindfulness component of MAC. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Widhi Harita, A. N., Suryanto, S., & Ardi, R.
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- Universitas Airlangga (ID)
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- Jurnal SPORTIF : Jurnal Penelitian Pembelajaran
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- Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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- 2022-08-30
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- 2
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- 169-188
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- 2548-7833
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Keywords
- pre-competition anxiety, karate athletes, cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, self-confidence, mindfulness training, athletic performance, mental training
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