Abstract
Sports competitions are accompanied by many unpleasant and negative emotions e.g. anxiety. The study aims to search the factorial validity of one of the most influential inventory in sport psychology i.e. Competitive State Anxiety-2 (CSAI-2) in Pakistani context (i.e. Urdu version). The English version of tool was converted into Urdu. Urdu version of CSAI-2 was distributed 30 minutes before the start of the event to a group of randomly selected 310 student athletes between the ages of 19-27 years of different events from Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan & Peshawar University. A comprehensive statistical analysis was performed such as item-to-total correlation, EFA and CFA to find out the factorial validity of the instrument. Based on the results of the current study, a new CSAI-2 (13 items Urdu version) inventory was developed for measuring intensity dimension of competitive state anxiety. It is proposed that the investigators may employ CSAI-2 (Urdu) instead of the CSAI2 to measure competitive state anxiety in Pakistani athletes.

Farooq Hussain, Dr. Riasat Ali . (2018) Validation of Intensity Dimension of Competitive State Anxiety-2 (Csai-2) Urdu Version, Sir Syed Journal of Education & Social Research (SJESR), Volume-01, Issue-2.
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