Comparison of Competitive Status of Professional Basketball Players Through SCAT Questionnaire and Blood Cortisol

Sports competitions create a lot in athletes and sometimes the results of sports competitions are determined as a result of differences in competitions and skills. This creates stress in the agents, which is the stress caused by the athletes. The purpose this study was comparisons between competitive state anxiety in low and high arousal in elite basketball players. The subjects of this study were basketball players who participated in basketball competition that disposed on 90-91. Tow of competitions choice T won the competition that the players had high arousal (the players 70% did not guess to win that competition) and the other one with low arousal (the players 70% did not guess to win that competition). 2 hours before each competition begin the subjects completed the SCAT questionnaire and their blood bleeder too. The results of this study shown that the competitive state anxiety in high arousal was high and in low arousal was low, in tow ways SCAT and cortisol tests (p<0/05) and with a comparison between SCAT and cortisol tests, the results shown that there were not any significant differences between SCAT and cortisol tests.