Sports Massage Therapy Towards Pre-Competition Anxiety Among Malaysian High Performance Tennis Players

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200824.235How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sports massage, pre-competition anxiety, tennis, Malaysia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discussed about the initial idea of the research regarding pre-competition anxiety, factors of anxiety, scientific impact of SM towards pre-competition anxiety, findings of previous literature, theory and model related to pre-competition anxiety. The idea of coping with pre-competition anxiety is to go through SM therapy. This study will be focusing towards Malaysian high performance tennis athletes. Recently Malaysian high performance tennis players show inconsistent performance that lead into argument of the Malaysian tennis future. The model of Four-Stage Stress Process Model by McGrath (1970), describes the characteristics of the athletes. Multidimensional Theory of Anxiety by Burton (1988), state that there are three components in anxiety which is cognitive anxiety, self-confident and somatic anxiety. All respondent’s pre-competition anxiety level will be measure by using Competitive State Anxiety Inventory – 2 (CSAI-2) and Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) Kit. The data obtained will be analyzed using Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0 descriptively which involves mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage and others. SM technique is adapted from Tim Paine (2015). Indeed, the expectation outcome through this concept paper, each sports enthusiast, coach and athlete will have another therapeutic method that can reduce pre-competition anxiety among Malaysian high performance tennis player.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wan Ahmad Munsif Wan Pa
AU  - Norlena Salamuddin
AU  - Noraziah Mohamad Zin
AU  - Denise Koh Choon Lian
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/25
TI  - Sports Massage Therapy Towards Pre-Competition Anxiety Among Malaysian High Performance Tennis Players
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Progress in Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Symposium (PSSHERS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1073
EP  - 1079
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200824.235
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200824.235
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