| Taekwondo is a martial arts sport that mainly uses leg technical movements for confrontation,and the new competitive competition rules have been changed from the final score system to a three-round winning system,which also increases the psychological pressure and anxiety of taekwondo athletes.A review of the literature found that there are few empirical studies on the field of pre-competition anxiety of young athletes in taekwondo events,and further research is needed.According to the nature of taekwondo events,this paper investigates the anxiety characteristics of young taekwondo athletes,and proposes corresponding pre-competition anxiety adjustment methods to help improve the psychological quality of taekwondo athletes,promote the normal performance of athletes’ skills,and obtain better sports performance.This paper uses the literature method,expert interview method,questionnaire survey method and mathematical statistics method to investigate the pre-competition anxiety of 251 athletes who participated in the 2022 National Taekwondo Championships(Group A Preliminary Round),and studied and explored the influencing factors,causes and regulatory methods of pre-competition anxiety of young taekwondo athletes,and concluded that the following conclusions:1.The scores of social evaluation anxiety,competition preparation anxiety,and competition level performance anxiety in the sports cognitive trait anxiety of young taekwondo athletes were lower than the norm,and the scores of failure anxiety,opponent’s strength anxiety,and injury anxiety were higher than the norm.There were obvious differences between different categories of athletes,among which women,athletes with short training years and high sports level had significantly higher social evaluation anxiety and competition preparation anxiety than men,athletes with long training years and low sports level.Except for failure anxiety and injury anxiety,the anxiety levels of the remaining four dimensions decreased with the increase of training years and exercise level.2.Compared with the norm of competition state anxiety,adolescent taekwondo athletes showed higher physical state anxiety and state self-confidence,and female athletes also showed higher cognitive state anxiety.At the same time,there were obvious differences between different categories of athletes,female athletes had higher cognitive state anxiety and physical state anxiety than male athletes,and lower state self-confidence than male athletes.The cognitive state anxiety and physical state anxiety of athletes with short training years and low sports level are higher than those of athletes with long training years and high exercise level;As the level of exercise and the number of years of training increased,the stronger the self-confidence,the lower the anxiety level.3.There was a significant positive correlation between sports cognitive state anxiety and competition preparation anxiety and failure anxiety in adolescent taekwondo athletes,a significant positive correlation between physical state anxiety and failure anxiety in taekwondo athletes,and a significant negative correlation between state self-confidence and failure anxiety.4.The main influencing factor of cognitive trait anxiety is training years,and the interaction effect of gender sports level training years is also one of the reasons affecting cognitive trait anxiety;The influencing factor of anxiety in the competition state is the sports level,and the interaction effect of gender training years is also the main factor affecting the anxiety of the competition state.5.The pre-competition anxiety adjustment strategies of young taekwondo athletes include self-guided deep thinking technique training,self-suggestion to improve self-confidence training,and breathing decompression training from the perspective of internal regulation;From the perspective of external adjustment,coaches combine the characteristics of athletes to carry out training,carry out simulated events,and guide athletes to carry out mind training before the competition. |
