AU - Atarodi, Alireza AU - Lotfi, Gholam Reza AU - Mottaghi, Mahmoodreza AU - Daemi, Abbas AU - Rohani, Zahra TI - The Relationship Between Coaching Anxiety with Footsal Players’ Anxiety and Performance in Gonabad City in 2010 PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - QHMS JN - QHMS VO - 17 VI - 3 IP - 3 4099 - http://imtj.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-1287-en.html 4100 - http://imtj.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-1287-en.pdf SO - QHMS 3 AB  -   Abstract   Background and Aim : Anxiety is one of the emotional and psychological factors that the studying of its effects considering existing variables can solve some of the athletes’ psychological problems. The current study was performed with the aim of surveying the relationship between coaching anxiety with Footsal players’ anxiety and performance in Gonabad city in 2010.   Materials and Methods : This is a descriptive and correlational study conducted with the use of sport competitive anxiety questionnaire of Martinez consisting of 15 questions, demographic questionnaire and athletic performance checklist. The study population was 600 players and Footsal coaches compromised of 60 Footsal teams. Each team was consisted of 10 members (five major players, four reserves and one coach). All the study population was studied and no sampling was conducted. The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 14. For data description, descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation were used Xi 2 and Pearson correlation coefficient test were used for statistical analysis of the data.   Results: The findings showed that there was a direct and significant relationship between coaching anxiety levels with sport competitive anxiety level in athletes (p=0.019). It also showed that there was a significant and negative relationship between coaching anxiety levels with performance level of the athletes (p=0.012, r=-0.8) and there was a significant and negative relationship between athletics’ sport anxiety levels with their performance level (p=0.01, r=-0.81). And it showed a significant and negative relationship between athletes' sport anxiety levels with their athletic experiences (p=0.001, r=0.45) and with their age as well (p= 0.001 r = -0.37).   Conclusion: Sport competitive anxiety has deeper and more effective relationship in locomotors skills performance in competition status in comparison with the other psychological factors. Finally, some recommendations were presented for reduction of sport competitive anxiety in athletes. CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - QHMS PG - 58 PT - Original YR - 2011