Abstract
The purpose of this study was to clarify the psychosocial actual condition of boxers to make basic materials to construct a support system for their total health. Sex, age, and consciousness for training were examined on sixty boxers in N boxing gym and the anxiety they might hold was also examined with a psychological investigation State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The age to start training boxing was around 16years old, and amateur boxers tended to retire boxing by 25years old. Fifteen professional boxers were all unmarried, but a quarter of amateur boxers there were already married. Professional boxers have part time jobs except boxing for about 30 hours a week in average. As any matches are hard to be owned by sponsors in Japan, Fight money to pay for every match is little. It can be supposed that professional boxers have some economic problems. Examining training content, time for training, purpose of training, daily efforts and their consciousness for training, professional boxers have clearer goal for training to achieve their purpose than amateur boxers. On the result of STAI, in state anxiety, the male of both professional and amateur boxers have high anxieties, but amateur female was normal in anxiety. In characteristic anxiety, all of them have high anxieties. Though it was found that boxers were easy to be in anxieties, it cannot be denied that those who have high anxiety tend to choose the sport of boxing.
