AUTHOR(S): Bhupinder Singh

ABSTRACT:
The purpose of the present study was to compare the anxiety level among select combat games. The total subject was 90 having 30 karate, 30 kickboxing and 30 taekwondo players. All these male subjects were randomly selected from Punjabi university Patiala inter college tournaments. The average age of the selected subjects was maintained as equal. The karate, kickboxing and taekwondo players those consider as combat games players. To get the measure of anxiety, cattle's comprehensive anxiety test (Punjabi version) was used. The test has a reliability of 0.85 (test-retest method, n = 100) and of 0.92 (odd even procedure, n = 100). The validity of the instrument with Taylor's manifest anxiety scale is 0.62 which is significant beyond 0.05 level of confidence. The outcome of the study show karate have maximum level of anxiety (mean 31.17 and slightly high as compare to kickboxing (mean = 30.00) and taekwondo players (mean 27.67). mean comparison o anxiety level of the selected subjects.

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