Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part E (2025)

This study aimed to compare competition anxiety between male and female individuals and team sports players. A total of 144 players from Pondicherry University and its affiliated colleges were selected for the study. Out of 144 players, 75 from individual sport (athletics consist of 50 males and 25 females) and 69 from team sport (football consists of 46 men and 23 women), students between the ages of 18 to 25 years were chosen for the study. “The Sport Competition Anxiety Test (Martens, 1977)”, widely referred to as the SCAT questionnaire, served as the criterion measure. We employed the t-test to determine the difference between two means and the standard deviation as the descriptive statistics. The current study exclusively considered a 0.05 level of significance. All calculations were conducted using the statistical software SPSS version 21. This study revealed that there were no significant differences in competition anxiety between male and female players in team sports. Similarly, in individual sports, there were no significant differences in competition anxiety.