Anxiety and kicking order affect on penalty kicking accuracy / Raja Fitri Shahar Shah Raja Abu Bakar Shah

Objective: To study the effects of anxiety and kicking order towards the penalty kicking
accuracy. Method: 50 amateur players from 10 amateur football clubs in Kuantan were selected
for this study. (5 players from each club). Subjects were within the age range of 18 to 31 years
old. Data was collected in a Penalty League in Kuantan held by Kuantan Football Association.
Permission and consent were granted by the team managers and organizers. After receiving
consent, subjects were given Sports Competition Anxiety Test questionnaire to answers within
an hour before the competition begins. Afterwards, a coin toss was done to decide the kicking
order of teams in the penalty shootout. Lastly, during the penalty shootout, conversion and miss
of the penalty kicks were recorded as data. For the data analysis, this study used one way Anova
to compare the penalty kicking accuracy of three anxiety levels and unpair t-test to compare the
penalty kicking accuracy of first and second kicker. Result: The study showed a significant
difference on penalty kicking accuracy between different level of anxiety with a value of .01 and
no significant difference of penalty kicking accuracy between the first and second kicker with a
value of .49. Conclusion: There is a significant effect of anxiety on penalty kicking accuracy
meanwhile there is no significant effect of kicking order on penalty kicking accuracy