Trait anxiety and its relationship to sports achievement motivation among physically disabled people

Abstract EN

The aim of the study is to identify the level of anxiety as a trait for the physically handicapped who are practiced in the adapted sports activity and to detect differences in anxiety according to the individual characteristics of the physically handicapped and also identify the relationship between anxiety and the dimension of sportive achievement motivation (success achievement motive and avoid failure motive).

The researcher used the descriptive method; The study sample included 102 athletes who were physically disabled.

Study tools are a mesure of sport achievement motivation designed by "J.

Williss " 1982 and anxiety scale as trait of "Gorssuch, Lushene, Spielberger" 1970.

After the application we found the following results: _the level of anxiety for physically disabled athletes is low.

- there are no differences un anxiety-trait depending on (age, origin, for motor disability, level of study).

- a positive relationship between the anxiety-trait and the motivation to avoid failure and inverse relationship between anxiety as trait and the motivation to achieve success.