Document Type

Dissertation

Date of Award

11-2021

School/College

Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (SOPA)

Degree Name

Ed.D., Educational Administration

Committee Chairperson

Bernnell Peltier-Glaze Ed.D

Committee Member 1

Lillian B Poats, Ed.D.

Committee Member 2

, Ronnie Davis Ed.D.

Committee Member 3

Courtney L Flowers Ph.D.

Committee Member 4

J.Kenyatta Cavil Ed.D

Keywords

Academic Factors, Anxiety Behaviors, Athletes, High Performing, Secondary

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the predictable relationship between selected demographic factors, academic factors and the state and trait anxiety scores among student-athletes. Specifically, this empirical investigation was concerned with the predictability of the state and trait anxiety scores among student-athletes employing the following predictor variables: gender; age; ethnicity; grade point average, STAAR English I test scores, and STAAR Algebra I test scores. A correlation (regression) research design was utilized in the current investigation. One hundred seventy-eight (178) student-athletes attending a sport science Charter School were selected to participate in this investigation. Two instruments entitled the Demographic Profile Sheet and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used by the research to collect the data. A statistically significant linear relationship was not found between the demographic factors gender, age, ethnicity, and the state anxiety scores among student- athletes. The variables gender, age and ethnicity were not independent predictors of the sate anxiety scores among student-athletes. A linear predictable relationship was found between the demographic factors gender, age, ethnicity and the trait anxiety scores among student-athletes. Age of the student-athletes was independently related to the trait anxiety scores among student-athletes. Academic related factors of grade point average, STAAR English I test scores, and STAAR Algebra I test scores were not significantly related to the state anxiety scores among student athletes. The academic factors of grade point average, STAAR English I test scores and STAAR Algebra I test scores were not independent predictors of state anxiety scores among student-athletes. No statistically significant linear relationships were found between the academic factors of grade point average, STAAR English I test scores, STAAR Algebra I test scores, and the trait anxiety scores among student-athletes. The academic factors of grade point average, STAAR English I test scores and STAAR Algebra I test scores did not contribute independently to the trait anxiety scores among student-athletes.

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