O jogo como fonte de stress no basquetebol infanto-juvenil

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Game as a source of stress with young basketball playersThe basketball game is a potential source of stress for the athletes.The different aspects of the game lead to situations that can influence the players' performance.In this study the purpose was to identify and rank the game stressful situations, according to the opinion of basketball youth athletes.The research was made with 136 basketball players (61 girls and 75 boys) with age ranging from 15 to 18 years old.All of them were playing basketball for clubs at State of São Paulo and competing in events organized by the regional basketball league.The athletes answered the Formulary for Identification of Stressful Situations in Basketball (FISSB).The results showed that the most stressful situations in the game were related to the following specific factors: "competence", "task difficulty"; "referees"; "coaches" and "teammates".Although there was significant differences in the level of stress between girls and boys, there was a strong correlation between both sexes concerned to the rank of the (rs = 0.9027; p < 0.01).These results show the importance of game situations as stress source and contribute for the understanding of the competitive process by coaches and athletes in order to decrease the influence of stress in athletes' performance.

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