anxiety

• competitive trait anxiety is where the performer sees all competitive situations as threatening and tend to have high| state anxiety
• competitive state anxiety is when someone sees only a particular competitive situation as threatening
• cognitive state anxiety is the temporary thoughts the performer has
• somatic state anxiety is the physical responses a person has
• cognitive state anxiety is low for high performance and has a negative linear relationship
• somatic state anxiety has an inverted u shape and needs to be at a moderate level for high performance
• cognitive state anxiety is high 1 week prior to performance whilst low somatic state anxiety
• cognitive stays high until during performance where it dips and somatic rises as nearer to performance and then drops once performance has started