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The Anxiety Rating Scale-2 (ARS-2) is a shortened version of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSA 1) that has recently displayed greater concurrent validity than the initial Anxiety Rating Scale (Cox & Robb, 1999). It was the purpose of this investigation to firther determine the psychometric properties of the ARS-2 by examining the construct validity of the revised short-form inventory with individual sport athletes. Participants in this investigation were 302 college age intramural athletic participants in several individual sport paradigms (table tennis, one-on-one basketball, racquetball and badminton, pickleball, and wrestling). Results from a 2 x 2 (gender x outcome) MANOVA revealed a significant main effect for outcome but no significant main effect for gender or gender by outcome interaction. Follow-up descriptive discriminant analysis structure coefficients for cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, and confidence were .12, .18, and .90, respectively, indicating that confidence was meaningful in predicting game outcome. Results demonstrate the construct validity of the ARS-2, in that winning and losing individual sport athletes could be discriminated as a finction of scores on the ARS-2. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of short rating scales within precompetitive anxiety measurement and the future examination of the directionality concept.
The development of short-form inventories to assess precompetitive anxiety has shown much empirical progress as various investigations (Krane, 1994; Cox, Russell, & Robb, 1999) have developed short rating scales to be more practical, less intrusive, yet maintain strong psychometric properties in order to assess competitive state anxiety within a multidimensional context (Martens, Vealey, & Burton, 1990). Specifically, the Anxiety Rating Scale was developed as a short rating scale derived, from multiple regression procedures, from the Competitive State Anxiety-2 (CSAI-2; Martens et al., 1990) and was designed within a single statement format to assess precompetitive cognitive state anxiety, somatic state anxiety, somatic state anxiety, and self-confidence. The concurrent validity of the ARS was established with team sport intramural athletes (Cox, Russell, & Robb, 1998; 1999) and with individual sport athletes (Cox, Reed, & Robb, 1997). Results of these investigations have shown the original ARS to be moderately correlated with the subscales of the CSAI-2 (.60 to .70)
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