Managing cognitive anxiety through expressive writing in student-athletes

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Miftakhul Jannah, Rachman Widohardhono, Fatimah Fatimah, Damajanti Kusuma Dewi, M Chairul Basrun Umanailo

2019 International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research Vol. 8 Issue 10 Article Cited by 12

Abstract

The purpose of this study was designed to examine the effect of expressive writing on cognitive state anxiety on the student-athletes of badminton. This study uses an experimental research method with one group pre and posttest design. The treatment in this study was expressive writing given for 3 consecutive days. The participants of this study were 7 badminton athletes from the East Java Student Education and Training Center. The instrument in this study used cognitive state anxiety. Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon test and a significance value of 0.042 <0.05 was obtained. Thus it can be said that there is an effect of expressive writing on cognitive state anxiety on badminton student-athletes. © International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research. All rights reserved.

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Universitas Negeri Surabaya, E-mail:, Indonesia; Department of Agricultural and Forestry, University of Iqra Buru, Maluku, 97571, Indonesia