Trainers’ perceptions of the relation between stress and sport competiton activities among students at the University of Danang

Nguyen Thi Hang Phuong,  Nguyen  Xuan Hien, Vo Dinh Hop

The Department of Educational Psychology- University of Education  The University of Danang , Viet Nam
The Faculty of Physical Education The University of Danang
* Coresponding author:  [email protected]

Abstract
One of the most important activities of sports education in Vietnamese University is annual tournaments for students. This kind of activity also aims at improving a student’s health. Each college or university can send one team for each sport such as soccer, badminton, volleyball…. to compete in tournaments. Before these big activities, many students show anxiety and uncertainty which later affect their performance in competitions. With the support of interviews, questionnaires and Zung anxiety measurement test, the research objects of 164 students and 24 trainers show that anxiety before tournaments really decrease the competing spirit.

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