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Modeling the relationship between self-consciousness and competition anxiety
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posted on 2016-07-20, 11:11 authored by Kelly J. Ashford, Costas I. Karageorghis, Robin JacksonRobin JacksonThe present study examined the relationship between self-reported levels of self-consciousness and competition anxiety among a sample of sportspeople (N = 519). We hypothesized that self-consciousness would exhibit a positive linear relationship with competition anxiety via the mediator of social anxiety and that this relationship would be moderated by gender. Path analysis using robust maximum likelihood estimator techniques in EQS were employed to examine model fit. Examination of fit indexes demonstrated that the fit of the baseline a priori model was good (Robust CFI = .98, SRMR = .06). Multigroup analyses assessing invariance across gender were conducted by imposing increasingly strict equality constraints. The models displayed good fit (CFI = .96, SRMR = .08); however, inspection of the Lagrange multiplier test and then single-sample models revealed the path between social anxiety and somatic anxiety was stronger for females. We concluded that the relationship between self-consciousness and competition anxiety is mediated by the experience of social anxiety; however, the present findings refute the hypothesis that the relationship is moderated by gender.
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School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Personality and Individual DifferencesVolume
38Issue
4Pages
903 - 918Citation
ASHFORD, K., KARAGEORGHIS, C. and JACKSON, R., 2005. Modeling the relationship between self-consciousness and competition anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.06.015.Publisher
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