Mitra. Ayazi, Behzad. Divkan, Masumeh. Shahbazi and Liela. Afshar
The goal of this research is to recognize the relation between self-efficacy and fear of success among professional athletes in individual sports such as swimming, track and field and gymnastics. In order to clarify this we picked 135 random samples of professional athletes, 87 men and 48 women (SD = 9.85, x = 16.80) who has at least five years of experience in championship sports. They voluntarily filled in athletes self-efficacy assessment questionnaires (Bandura, 2000) Cronbach’s Alpha 0.90 , and for athletes’ fear of success assessment questionnaires (Metzler & Conroy 2004) Cronbach’s Alpha 0.91 were used to determine the reliability coefficient. The results indicated that there is a direct significant relation between vicarious experiences and athletes’ fear of success (p>0.05), but there is a significant reverse relation between social persuasion and athletes’ fear of success (p>0.05). And there is a significant reverse relation between physiological emotional situation and fear of success as well (p>0.05). Also findings show that there is not any significant relation between success in fulfilling functions and athletes’ fear of success (p<0.05). The general results indicates that there is a significant reverse relation between the rate of self-efficacy in athletes and fear of success (p>0.05). The results agree with Steples et al , 1998; Bandura, 2001; Millen, Scheerer & Orbel, 2000; English and Sutlon, 2001; Bill Cole, 2001; Caraway et al, 2003.
