The Relation Between Disruptive Factors and Succes In Sailing

Abstract

There are many factors that affect the success of sailors. Psychiological factors are some of the unavoidable ones that are connected to the sports performance. One of the key factors is anxiety which is changing according to the experience and the situation the sportsmen find themselves in. The goal of this paper was to determine the effect of disruptive factors on the success in sailing conducted on 29 students of Kinesiology faculty in Zagreb. In the research wave height, visibility, wind strength and anxiety level were measured and analysed. Anxiety was analysed through multidimensional approach to anxiety as a temporary state of the examinee, and the anxiety as a personality trait. Every examinee has filled out the Endler EMAS-T questionnaire which evaluates the anxiety as a personality trait, while everyday they were filling out EMAS-S questionnaire prior to every regatta, so that current anxiety could be compared to the regatta results. Statistically significant correlation between anxiety and success in sailing was proved in 2 out of 8 regattas, so it can hardly be said that the hypothesis was proved. Statistical significance was proved in lessening of the somatic anxiety level of sailors in correlation with the number of days and the exposure to the stressor. It can be concluded that the level of anxiety is changing the more days passes and the more the sailor is exposed to the stressor and that some inidcations of the correlation of anxiety and the success in regatta sailing exist.