Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Cortese, Jessica
Author's Email Address	jlc05r@fsu.edu
URN	etd-03242008-154627
Title	Determinants of Social Physique Anxiety in Collegiate Female Athletes
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Robert Eklund Committee Chair David Eccles Committee Member Gershon Tenenbaum Committee Member
Keywords	Athletes Social Physique Anxiety Female
Date of Defense	2008-03-07
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Concerns about self-presentation affect many athletes. Oftentimes, athletes who struggle to control the way they present themselves develop Social Physique Anxiety. Ample research has been completed providing evidence of negative outcomes associated with Social Physique Anxiety. These adverse consequences make it necessary to understand the particular environment in which social physique anxiety and self-presentational concerns are fostered with the goal of eliminating its source. Female collegiate volleyball players (n=156) participated in the study. Ages ranged from 18-23 years old. There were 8 respondents from Division I programs, 53 respondents from Division II programs, 91 respondents from Division III programs, and 5 respondents from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Each participant initially completed the trait portion of the Trait Anxiety Inventory to ensure equal trait anxiety across conditions. Participants were randomly assigned to the control condition, practice condition, intersquad scrimmage condition, or heavy spectator condition. Scores for social physique anxiety were collected using the Social Physique Anxiety Scale and scores for self-presentation concerns were collected using the Self-Presentation in Sport Questionnaire. Results indicated that there were no significant differences across conditions for self-presentation concerns, but that the intersquad scrimmage condition experienced significantly less physique anxiety than the control condition.
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