Sensation seeking and competitive trait anxiety among college rodeo athletes
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ABSTRACT:
This study examined sensation seeking and competitive trait anxiety among male college rodeo athletes. Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and Martens' Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) were administered to 19 university rodeo athletes, 28 hang glider pilots, 39 college baseball players, and 29 college wrestlers. It was hypothesized that rodeo athletes would score similar to hang gliders but higher than baseball players and wrestlers on the SSS. A one between-subjects MANOVA on the two measures revealed significant differences among the four groups, F(6,220) = 12.59, p less than .001. Stepdown analysis indicated that the groups differed on both the SSS and SCAT. Followup on the SSS revealed rodeo athletes scored higher than baseball players, lower than hang gliders, and that their mean was similar to the norm for male college athletes. Rodeo athletes' mean score on the SCAT was also similar to college athletes' norms. These data do not support depictions of college rodeo athletes as high in sensation seeking. Discussion focuses on two alternative explanations. Rodeo athletes from other settings may score high on the SSS. Conversely, the motivation to compete in rodeo may have more to do with cultural history than sensation seeking.
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