A Comparison Study and Investigation on Sport Competition Attributive Anxiety among Elite Athletes Keyvan MolaNorouzi 1 ,Habib Honari 2 ,Forozan Zahedmanesh 1 1. Islamic Azad University Eslamshahr Branch, 2. Allame Tabatabaei University, Tehran, IRAN Abstract Anxiety is one of the mental disorders in human being, which can influence the performance of each person, especially while doing physical activities and sports. Anxiety is defined in two major levels: Attributive Anxiety and Conditional Anxiety. Anxiety is one of the most popular forms of excitement among athletes in sport competitions, and when it lasts for a long period it will increase the muscular tensions and reduce the level of performance. As a matter of fact, the role of anxiety in sports and competitions is noticeable and important. This survey, compare and investigate the sport competition attributive anxiety among male athletes who had taken part in national university championships (Iran) . The statistical population in this research was 252 male athletes from football, futsal , Table Tennis and Badminton disciplines. The mean age was 24 and the standard of deviation was 2.6. The instrument for evaluations was the special questionnaire of Sport Competition Attributive Anxiety Test (SCAT) developed by Renner Martins, which has 15 questions. The perceptive statistical methods for comparing the mean of sport disciplines anxiety was one way ANOVA and LSD test, and one sample T-Test was used for comparing the anxiety in individual and team event competitions. One sample Kolmogorov Smirnov (K-S) test was used for examining the symmetry of the distributions, which showed that the selected test was not significant (P>0.05) and the distribution of collected data was normal. There is a significant relation between the sport competition attributive anxiety in athletes who participate in individual sports with their ages (P<0.01, r=0.504) There is a significant differences between the sport competition attributive anxiety among the above athletes participated in sport disciplines (P<0.05, F=8.25) Anxiety in sport psychology is one of the major aspects for controlling the situation and the conditions of athlete and competition; while anxiety could be under your control and kept in a acceptable values, we would expect the better outcome and performance from the athlete. Keywords: Anxiety, Sport Competition Attributive Test (SCAT), Athlete. INTRODUCTION Areas in Sports Psychology growth in recent decades has had the eye and making the world more than any other time is considered in (1). Efforts to understand the effects of many variables for mental cognitive function of athletes are a (2). Today with advances in sports science branch of one of the most fundamental success factors determining user fields that can be won to the success of a team or individual to help the understanding of psychological variables. Are many psychological variables that may be effective on the performance of one of the are most important competitive anxiety. Anxiety is independent of mode of provocation that is with feelings and receiving mental. The biological aspects of both anxiety and mental aspects of both cases that person is worried about identity finds (3). States of anxiety and unrest of fear, stress, attitude, arousal and automatics nervous system activity appears (4). Harris and Doroti opinion and also the form of cognitive anxiety and mental hallucination appears to the general and any time that person, such as test cases, and important company meeting activities, concern will be worried. Wayne only in case he does not mind, but all members of the body concerned and the reaction due full body is learn(5). No doubt you will see the athletes because of anxiety have shown to yield the evil. Anxiety, their concerns and feel the shape of physical symptoms such as confidence and experience Delphi, sweating hands and heartthrob floor shows. Any competition is more important, the possibility that athletes from their anxiety symptoms to show, most will. Sport field of athletic performance variables that are significant relationship, anxiety is competitive. According to comments Boris (1976) and colleagues (Spielberger, 1971 and 1966) can be an anxiety level increased from a "provocation", a direct nervous system is usually defined category Sympathy activity close to knowing the effects movement is accompanied by negative. Essentially an independent state of motivation and emotion that has received mental. The biological aspects of both anxiety and psychological aspects of both 572 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 67 2010