The Relationship between Sport Self-efficacy Inter-mediator and Perfectionism and Competitive Anxiety among Top Football League Athletes of Hamedan Province

Year 2018, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 126 - 139, 22.06.2018

Saeed Saheb Bayatı Gholamreza Khaksary Majid Soleyman

Abstract

Present study was carried out to reveal the relationship between sport self-efficacy intermediator
and perfectionism among athletes of top football league of Hamedan province. This
study was applied, descriptive and correlative type and it was quantitative in terms of data
collection method. The statistical community of present study consisted of all footballers in
top football league of Hamedan province in 2016. Given the point that there are 10 teams in
top league of Hamedan province, thus, the statistical society of this study included 220
athletes. The statistical sample consisting of 140 athletes were chosen in random using
Morgan and Kerjsi table. Results indicate that there is a significant relationship between sport
self-efficacy inter-mediator and perfectionism and competitive anxiety of football athletes of
Hamedan province. On the other hand, a significant relationship is observed among all three
variables of sport self-efficacy, competitive anxiety, and perfectionism. Also, the components
of perfectionism had the ability to predict sport self-efficacy and competitive anxiety and also
components of sport self-efficacy were capable of predicting competitive anxiety.

Keywords

sport self-efficacy, perfectionism, competitive anxiety

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