CRAFT ET AL

Aims

To see how different types of anxiety (somatic, physical and cognitive anxiety) relate to one another and to self esteem.
To see how somatic congnitive anxiety and self confidence relate to sporting performance.

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The reseachers brought together the findings or different studies which had used the same questionnaire to look at anxitey and self confidence- this was meta analysis. The data had been gathered in the same way so they could be compared
The data from 29 studies were analysed to see how far cognitive anxiety , somatic anxiety and self confidence were rathed both to each other and sporting performance
ppts had rated themsevles for both types of anxiety and for self confidence so the scores were self report data

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In general it was self confidence that related to sporting performance rather than anxiety
Cognitive anxiety related to somatic anxiety. The result of the correlational analysis was r=0.52 ( quite a high postive correlation) as cognitive anxiety rises so does somatic anxiety.
Cognitive anxiety related to self confidence and the result was r=0.47 (quite a high negative correlation)- as self confidence rises cognitive anxiety falls
Somatic anxiety related to self confidence and the result was r=0.54 (again quite a high negative cprrelation) - as self comfodence rises somatic anxiety falls.

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Both types of anxiety semm to be related to self confidence- the more confident a performer the less anxious they are which makes sense.
As the 2 types of anxiety are closely related as well, and both have similar negative correlation with self confidence , it seems possible that somatic and cognitive anxiety are not in fact sperate

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Drew on 29 studies so had lareg amounts of data from the smae quetsionnaire, which is a strength of meta- analysis.
The data was collected from the same questionnaire which had been standardised so the data could be reliable.

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Perhaps it was not valid to seperate cognitive and somatic anxiety- they seemed to rise together and were also both similarly related to self confidence as if they were the same thing. Perhaps they could not be seperated by using a questionnaire
The data was collected for different purposes and as they are other reserachers data they might not be validally compared

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