The Relationship of Goal Orientation and Competition Anxiety with Sport Performance of Young Wrestlers

The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship of goal-orientation and competition anxiety with performance of young wrestlers. This research was based on descriptive-correlation statistics. Statistical population was including all the young participated wrestlers in Ardabil wrestling championship in summer 1393 with 150 people. The sample was selected equal with population. Research tools was Task and ego orientation in sport questionnaire (Duda & Nicholls, 1992) and sport competition anxiety test (Martens, Veale & Burton, 1990) and the study results wrestlers. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire was certified 0.80 and 0.90. The results have shown a positive meaningful relationship between task orientation and sport performance. However, the relationship between ego orientation and sport performance was not meaningful. Also, there was a negative meaningful relationship between competition anxiety and sport performance. Logistic regression model has shown that, with an exception for task orientation variable, the two other variables are able %76.4 to predict changes in dependent variable of the performance. The results have shown that to improve sport performance, it is necessary to pay more attention to the purposeful performance type and competition anxiety level