A study of three-stage skills and pre-competition anxiety of Taiwan's college division B male table tennis players.

the purpose of the study was to understand the technical indication value of the three-staged techniques by investigating its correlation with the pre-event anxiety of college table tennis players in men's division B. A total of 54 male tennis players from four different schools served as subjects of the study. With the registration form and analysis chart of table tennis three-staged techniques, Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT, Lu Chun-Hong's version) and Competition State Anxiety Scale-II (CSAI-2, Huang Ying-Zhe's version) as analyzing tools, data were further verified by adopting three-staged techniques evaluation criteria and Pearson product-moment correlation. Study results could be concluded as followed: (1) By looking at three-staged techniques, Taiwan's college table tennis players in men's division B, both 'Scoring rate in stage of serving attack' and 'Using rate at stalemate' were at the level of 'failed'. Whereas 'Using rate in stage of serving attack', 'Scoring rate in stage of receiving-serve attack', 'Using rate in stage of receiving-serve attack' and 'Scoring rate at stalemate' were above the level of 'pass'. (2) The correlation between three-staged techniques and pre-event anxiety in Taiwan's college table tennis players in men's division B were: (2.1) In trait anxiety and three-staged techniques there were only 'Scoring rate in stage of serving attack' and 'Scoring rate in stage of receiving-serve attack' reaching obvious correlation (p<0.05). (2.2) In table tennis three-staged techniques and pre-event cognitive anxiety, there were only 'Using rate in stage of serving attack' and 'Scoring rate at stalemate' reaching obvious correlation (p<0.05). (2.3) In table tennis three-staged techniques and pre-event somatic anxiety, there was only 'Scoring rate in stage of serving attack' reaching obvious correlation (p<0.05). (2.4) In table tennis three-staged techniques and self-confidence, there were 'Scoring rate in stage of serving attack' and 'Scoring rate at stalemate' reaching obvious correlation (p<0.05). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]