Sources of acute stress in elite and expert wrestlers

The aim of this study was to investigate Sources of acute stress in elite and expert wrestlers. Volunteer participants were 210 wrestlers of elite (age: 24.9±4.6 years) and expert (age: 23.6±4.9 years) wrestlers. Participants were asked to complete the Sources of Acute Stress among wrestling Questionnaire (SASWQ). Multivariate analysis of variance results indicated that there was significant difference between athletes participating in performance, evaluation, contest, error, prospect, time pressure, injury and environment in the Sources of acute stress, expert wrestlers gets more points than the elite wrestlers. F_8,209­=3.289, P=0.001, PartialȠ 2=0.997), (p≥0.05). Results indicate that the expert wrestlers in comparison with elite wrestlers allocate a large proportion of energy for addressing with mental pressure that arises from Sources of acute stress. While for the elite wrestlers, those obtain psychology distance from Sources of acute stress, hereby increase probability of self-sport achievement.