Document Type : Original research study
Authors
1 MA student, Sport Psychology, Allameh tabataba’i University
2 MA student, Sport Psychology,Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch
3 Associate professor sport psychology, Allameh tabataba’i University, Tehran
Abstract
The present study aims to investigate the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive intervention on reducing athletes' cognitive, physical and behavioral anxiety. 75 available subjects were selected and divided into three groups namely team, individual and control group. Questionnaires were used to examine the cognitive, physical and behavioral anxiety of the subjects after performing mindfulness-based cognitive intervention. The results of the analysis conducted on covariance showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the post-test in the experimental group and the post-test in the control group after controlling for the pre-test differences in the amount of cognitive, physical and behavioral anxiety. The results of independent t-test indicated that there is a significant difference between the overall anxiety of team and individual subjects. Thus, the amount of anxiety in individual fields was higher than that of team fields. Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that mindfulness-based cognitive intervention can decrease cognitive, physical and behavioral anxiety in athletes.
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