Relationships between sport psychological profile, competitive anxiety and satisfaction of basic psychological needs in beach handball players

MORILLO BARO, J.P. ; VÁZQUEZ DIZ, J.A.; HERNÁNDEZ MENDO, A.; MORALES SÁNCHEZ, V.; RAIMUNDI, M.J.; JIMÉNEZ SALAS, J.; MORENO MORALES, F.; PÉREZ LÓPEZ, R.; REIGAL, R.; GONZÁLEZ GUIRVAL, F.; BLANCO ROMERO, L.; FRANQUELO EGEA, M.A.

Sevilla

Congreso; 14th World Congress of Sport Psychology; 2017

International Society of Sport Psychology

The objective of this research was to examine the relationship between the sports psychological profile with competitive anxiety and the satisfaction of basic psychological needs in a sample of players of handball Beach depending on gender. 111 U19 and senior players aged between 17 and 32 participated in the study. The 55.90% were of male gender (n=62) and 44, 10% were women (n= 49). The psychological inventory of sports performance (IPED) was used to analyse the sports psychological profile of the participants, the inventory of the state of anxiety in competition-2 (CSAI-2) to evaluate the State of anxiety and self-confidence, and the scale of satisfaction of basic psychological needs (PNSE) to measure the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs. Through an analysis of cluster, by gender, the sample was divided into two groups based on the variables of the IPED (male: n1=24 y n2=38; female: n1= 27 and n2= 22. In both genders, the created groups were characterized by a low score in all factors of the IPED in one case and a high score in all of the factors of the IPED in another case. Comparison of means analyses indicated that men had less somatic anxiety, as well as greater self-confidence, perception of the need for competition and social relations in the group with higher scores in the IPED. In women, the results showed that girls with higher scores in the IPED obtained better scores on self-confidence and perception of the need for competition. The data obtained in this study indicated that the analysis of the psychological profile of sports could help to better understand the athletes and to assess more accurately some psychological variables involved in sports performance.