A person's general tendency to feel anxious across sporting situations.
Trait sport anxiety refers to a relatively stable, dispositional tendency to perceive competitive sport situations as threatening and to respond with elevated cognitive worry and/or somatic tension, as distinct from state anxiety (the transient anxiety felt before or during a specific event). It is typically measured with self-report inventories (e.g., the Sport Anxiety Scale or SCAT), and definitions/operationalisations vary somewhat across instruments, so exact cut-offs and subscale structure should be checked against the source tool used.
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