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Repisalud author Castillo-Rodriguez, Alfonso author Hernández-Mendo, Antonio author Alvero-Cruz, José Ramón author Onetti-Onetti, Wanesa author Fernández-García, José Carlos 2024-02-27T15:08:31Z 2024-02-27T15:08:31Z 2022-06-03 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.890828 1664-1078 Frontiers in psychology http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20728 35726267 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/18666 The objectives of the present study were firstly to evaluate precompetitive anxiety and self-confidence (SC) in padel players according to their playing level; and secondly, to study the factors that influence the levels of precompetitive anxiety and SC. One hundred padel players, all of whom were federated men (age: M = 27.6, SD = 7.5 years; weight: M = 73.4, SD = 9.8 kg; height: M = 175.6, SD = 7.5 cm) participated in the research. The CSAI-2 (Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2) questionnaire was used and a one-way ANOVA and a two- and three-ways MANOVA were conducted. The results show that the players from a better category had higher scores in SC and lower scores in somatic anxiety (SA) (η 2 = 0.10 and η 2 = 0.12, respectively). Moreover, the factors of category, body mass index (BMI) and experience, predicted 82% of the variance explained by the SC of the player. As a conclusion, this study has made it possible to ascertain that the playing category, understood as the level of the padel players, determines the levels of anxiety and SC and represents a key factor for the prediction of sports performance. eng anxiety category competition padel raquet sports self-confidence Level of Precompetitive Anxiety and Self-Confidence in High Level Padel Players. research article