摘要：The study was conducted to determine the relationship between the Sports Competition Anxiety with the Shooting Performance of the Basketball Players. For the purpose of the study Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) developed by Martens et al 1990 was administered on 32 male basketball players from Delhi University who at least had state level participation. After administering the questionnaire the shooting performance was measured by giving 15 free shots to each selected subject and each free shot counted was scored as one point. Findings of the study revealed that the sports competitive anxiety has a significant negative correlation with the shooting performance as the coefficient of correlation (r) obtained was 0.711 significant at p< 0.001. Therefore it was concluded that the anxiety plays an important role in the performance of an athlete, a higher level of sports competition anxiety deteriorates athletes' performance (Martens et al., 1990; Weinberg & Gould, 1999; Ortiz, 2006). And hence, it is recommended that the findings of the study must be used to design appropriate training programmes for the basketball players to acquire suitable coping strategies so as to reduce their anxiety levels and enhance their performance.
