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Sport Anxiety Scale

The SAS is a 15–21 item questionnaire measuring trait (dispositional) sport-specific anxiety—the tendency to experience worry and physiological arousal in sport-competitive contexts. Developed by Smith, Smoll, and Schutz in 1990, the SAS is the primary instrument for assessing individual differences in sport anxiety proneness and for predicting anxiety management needs across diverse athletic populations.

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Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / sport-psychology
  • Smith, R. E., Smoll, F. L., & Schutz, R. W. (1990). Measurement and correlates of sport-specific cognitive and somatic trait anxiety: The Sport Anxiety Scale. Anxiety Research, 2(4), 263–280. · DOI 10.1080/08917779008248733
  • Smith, R. E., Cumming, S. P., & Smoll, F. L. (2006). Measurement of multidimensional sport performance anxiety in children and adults: The Sport Anxiety Scale-2. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 28(4), 479–501. · DOI 10.1123/jsep.28.4.479
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