A Study of Relationship among Anxiety, Self-Efficacy and Skill Perfarmance in a Skating Class

Abstract

The primary purpose of this study was to assess and to analyze the factors of anxiety in a university skating class which was conducted in November 1993. A secondary purpose of the study was to examine how anxiety related to self-efficacy and actual skate skill performance.
The subjects, who participated in the skating class, were 112 undergraduate students. 23 of them were beginners, and 89 of them were persons experienced in skating.
The results were summerized as follows.
1) The four factors of the Skate Anxiety-Scale were extracted and Interpreted as skill factor, injury factor, environment factor and pain factor.
2) The persons with higher self-efficacy scores had lower anxiety than the persons with lower scores.
3) The persons with lower anxiety scores showed higher skill performnance than the persons with higher scores.