The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Team Cohesion with Competitive Anxiety in U-15 Soccer Students of Academy AT Pharmacy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.71264/fairplay.v2i3.65Abstract
This study aims to see the relationship between self-efficacy and team cohesiveness with the level of anxiety in competing U-15 football students at AT Farmasi Solo Academy correlated with each other. This study uses a quantitative approach with a correlational method. The target subjects of this study were 35 U-15 football students at AT Farmasi Solo Academy. Data collection was carried out using the General Self Efficacy Scale (GSES) questionnaire technique to measure self-efficacy, Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) for team cohesiveness and Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS) to measure the level of anxiety in competing. The results of the Pearson correlation test showed that there was a significant positive relationship between self-efficacy and team cohesiveness (r = 0.679; p <0.001), but there was no significant relationship between self-efficacy and anxiety (r = -0.259; p = 0.133), and team cohesiveness and anxiety (r = -0.268; p = 0.120). Kendall's Tau non-parametric correlation test supports this finding, where only the relationship between self-efficacy and team cohesiveness is significant (τ = 0.528; p < 0.001), while the relationship between self-efficacy and anxiety (τ = -0.243; p = 0.057) and team cohesiveness with anxiety (τ = -0.244; p = 0.054) are not statistically significant, although approaching the significance threshold. The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant relationship between self-efficacy and team cohesiveness, but no significant effect of both on match anxiety was found.
References
Bahtra, R. (2017). Psychological aspects of football athletes at the West Sumatra Student Sports Education and Training Center (PPLP). Sporta Saintika, 2(1), 217–229.
Bandura, A. (2020). Self-efficacy: The foundation of agency. Journal of Management, 46(2), 1–15.
Carron, A. V., & Eys, M. A. (2021). Group dynamics in sport (5th ed.). Fitness Information Technology.
Eys, M. A., Evans, M. B., & Ohlert, J. (2020). Cohesion and performance in sport teams. Current Opinion in Psychology, 16, 34–39.
Gould, D., Dieffenbach, K., & Moffett, A. (2020). Psychological characteristics and competitive anxiety of elite youth soccer players. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 32(3), 221–234.
Grossbard, J. R., Hanish, L. D., & Smith, R. E. (2020). Competitive anxiety and self-efficacy in youth athletes. Journal of Sport Behavior, 43(3), 1–12.
Hagger, M. S., & Chatzisarantis, N. L. D. (2020). Intrinsic motivation and anxiety in sport participation. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 9(3), 456–469.
Ivarsson, A., Johnson, U., Andersen, M. B., Tranaeus, U., & Stenling, A. (2021). Psychosocial predictors of competitive anxiety in youth sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 52, 101839.
Leo, F. M., González-Ponce, I., Sánchez-Miguel, P. A., Ivarsson, A., & García-Calvo, T. (2021). Role of team cohesion on anxiety and performance in youth soccer players. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(3), 1–12.
Lochbaum, M., Gottardy, J., & Klomp, K. (2021). Self-confidence, cohesion, and anxiety among adolescent athletes. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 128(4), 1–15.
Martínez-González, L., Atienza, F. L., & Balaguer, I. (2022). Self-efficacy, motivation, and anxiety in adolescent athletes. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1–10.
Nuryadi, A., & Ginting, A. A. (2017). Self control and self-efficacy affect academic procrastination in college students. Adiraga Scientific Journal, 3(2), 34.
Sepsena, N., & Riau, U. I. (2023). POEM. 2, 225–234.
Smith, R. E., Smoll, F. L., & Cumming, S. P. (2020). Effects of coach behaviors on youth athletes’ anxiety. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 11(2), 1–12.
Sugiyono. (2020). Qualitative quantitative research methods and R&D (Sutopo (Ed.); 2nd ed.). ALFABETA.
Vealey, R. S., & Chase, M. A. (2021). Self-confidence in sport. In G. Tenenbaum & R. Eklund (Eds.), Handbook of Sport Psychology (4th ed., pp. 1–24). Wiley.
Whitton, S. M., & Fletcher, R. B. (2014). The group environment questionnaire: A multilevel confirmatory factor analysis. Small Group Research, 45(1), 68–88.
Zinsser, N., Bunker, L., & Williams, J. M. (2020). Cognitive-behavioral interventions for reducing competitive anxiety. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 32(4), 1–11.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 Fajar Priyo Siswanto (Author)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
