The Competitive Anxiety (Cognitive, Somatic, Afective, and Motoric) among Martial Art Athletes

The comparison of anxiety profiles on martial arts remains an interesting object to be ex-amined. The present study is to compare the competitive anxiety characteristics between martial art athletes. Survey design was used in this study, this was to determined anxiety condition of Student Sports Training and Education Center (PPLOP) in Central Java Prov-ince. A total of 59 athletes from seven various of martial art of Central Java athletes (fenc-ing, wrestling, karate, pencak silat, taekwondo and judo) composed the sample. The in-strument used was the Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS). The result reported that Judo has the highest mean on cognitive anxiety (11.20) and motoric anxiety (34.20). Thus, pencak silat has the highest mean score on afective anxiety (11.40). Boxing has lowest mean score on cognitive anxiety (9.33), somatic anxiety (17.83), and motoric anxiety (28.83). One could observe based on the results found, that athletes on each martial art are constantly distin-guished.