ANXIETY, SELF-CONFIDENCE AND PERFORMANCE IN TAE-KWON-DO

142 male Tae Kwon-do competitors completed the Competitive Stale Anxie ty Inventory-2 about 1 hr. before competition. Multivariate analysis o f variance showed that the players who mon reported lower cognitive an d somatic anxiety and higher self-confidence than those who lost. Disc riminant function analysis indicated that 89 (62.68%) participants cou ld be correctly classified as winners or losers on the basis of their precompetition Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 scores. The findi ngs concur with previous research in karate.