Research On Relationships Among Athletes' Coping Strategy, Sports Psychological Skills And Competitive State Anxiety

Nowadays, due to the fact that both the technical and tactical level have been developed to a high degree, and that the technical and tactical levels of high level athletes are very much similar, the mastery and application of sports psychological skills are of great importance for those brilliant players whose motor skills are nearly at the peak to get access to excellent competition results and good athletic performance. The problem of players'psychological skills, coping strategies and competitive state anxiety is always the important issue of concern to sports psychology. In this paper, the author conducts a field survey of 164 players in the 24th China University Handball Championship by means of PSIS, CSAI-2, CSCA. He explores relationships among coping strategies, sports skills and competitive state anxiety of the handball players and gets the following conclusion:1), There are significant differences between athletes'psychological skill level in gender, region, training periods and sports level; mainland players use more strategies of centralized treatment and concentrated solution than players of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The handball players who have had more than ten years of professional training use coping style of centralized solution more often. High level (sports masters) players apply more often strategies of centralized treatment, avoidance response and beyond response, there are no significant gender differences in the use of coping strategies; both the levels of competitive state anxiety and self-confidence of college handball players are higher than norm of other college students. Male Somatic state anxiety level and female cognitive state anxiety level are quite high, especially when compared with the norm. More visible differences in state confidence exist due to differences in region, age, gender, years of professional sports training and exercise levels. State anxiety level is a valid factor to distinguish levels of athletes, while state self-confidence level is a good predictor to distinguish sport psychological skills.2), the level of psychological skills of athletes has a significant impact on the competitive state anxiety. The mastery of sports psychology skills helps to improve state confidence and reduce cognitive and somatic state anxiety.3), Athletes'coping strategies have a significant impact on the competitive state anxiety. Positive response can reduce the cognitive state anxiety and somatic state anxiety and improve state confidence; avoidance response can improve state confidence; beyond response can reduce cognitive anxiety.4), Athletes'sports psychological skills and coping strategies are highly relevant.5) The regulating effects of coping Strategies of athletes on sports psychology skills and competitive state anxiety are significant.