COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE PRACTITIONERS OF THE SCUBA DIVING AND SWIMMING, IN THE LEVELS OF ANXIETY AND SELF CONFIDENCE

Authors

  • FREDERICO FONTOURA
  • MAURO MORAES MACEDO

Keywords:

scuba diving, swimming, anxiety

Abstract


The recreational scuba diving (scuba is self contained to underwater breathing apparatus); it is an aquatic, individual sport and practiced in group, that has its development in its bigger part outdoor, Swimming as well as the Diving is an individual and aquatic sport practiced in group however that it has its development in the biggest indoor part.  
The Objective was to evaluate in amateur sportsman of these two activities the presence of cognition anxiety, somatic state anxiety and auto confidence.  Moreover to compare between the two activities with characteristics very close with the relation to these psychological elements in both.
Observing the displayed data we conclude that the independent diving develops more the auto confidence, while it significantly lowers the levels of cognition anxiety and been anxiety somatic, while swimming contributes little for the increase of the auto confidence and if it identifies to a  bigger number of cases with been somatic state anxiety and cognition anxiety.

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FONTOURA, F., & MACEDO, M. M. (2015). COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE PRACTITIONERS OF THE SCUBA DIVING AND SWIMMING, IN THE LEVELS OF ANXIETY AND SELF CONFIDENCE. Fiep Bulletin - Online, 76(1). Retrieved from https://fiepbulletin.net/fiepbulletin/article/view/5046

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TRABALHOS PUBLICADOS

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