Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the state anxiety among Japanese university volleyball players based on coaches’ evaluation. The subjects were 54 male players of 4 teams（ The average age was 20.5 years: SD=1.09） who participated in the Japanese Kanto district university men’s volleyball
league games of year 2010. They were asked to respond to a Japanese version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory（ STAI）, which was measured at 4time periods（ The day before a game, The day of the game, Just before the game, Just after the game） for each of a total of 40 game（s each team played
10 games）. We collected one head coach and one assistant coach from each of the 4 teams（ A total of 8 coaches）. They judged whether players performed well or not. Then, each player was placed into one of the following 2 groups; Well-performing group（ WPG） and Non well-performing group（NPG） based on the above-mentioned criteria. The results were as follows: 1） The group of players who performed well in games collected by coaches scored lower than the more badly-performing group in the score of state anxiety. 2） The score between the group of players who performed well and the more badly-performing group showed significant difference on just after the game. These findings indicated that there was a difference in the character of state anxiety of between WPG and NPG based on coaches’ evaluation.
