This study was designed to find out that how much women dancers feel state anxiety (cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, self-confidence) before performance, and that how the level of the anxiety differs in terms of dance style and school level. For th...
This study was designed to find out that how much women dancers feel state anxiety (cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, self-confidence) before performance, and that how the level of the anxiety differs in terms of dance style and school level. For this purpose, a total of 164 students, who participated in the 5th National Dance Competition for Elementary, Middle and High Schools, were sampled, which were compose of 74 students of middle (korean dance: 24, ballet; 30, modern dance: 20), 90 students of high school (korean dance: 30, ballet: 30, modern dance: 30). Following findings could be obtained by conducting 2-way ANOVA according to each causation of anxiety after means and standard deviation between dance style and school level, with measured data. This study was used by Park, hyun-suk’s competitive state anxiety scale developed by Martens(1990).1. Cognitive anxiety tended to be increasing when the age was lowering in school level, but there is not specific cognitive anxiety concerning styles of dance. It appers, however, that there are not interactive effects between the style and the school level.2. There are specific differences in ballet, contrasted to korean dance or modern dance, concerning somatic anxiety, and it appears that there are not interactive effects between dance style and school level, while middle school students show specific differences in school level.3. There are not differences between school level both in dance style and school level concerning self-confidence.