ABSTRACT
Empirical investigations have found significant discrepancies between self-and social perceptions of personality traits. Self-and social perceptions of anxiety are also discrepant in specific situations, such as sports competitions, when a general trait anxiety inventory is used, for example, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Self-report data are based on perceptions related to the person’s cognitions about his or her own affective state or disposition. To analyze situation-specific differences in self-and social perceptions of sport-related anxiety, Spearman correlation coefficients were computed between situations for each perception perspective. To analyze the situational specificity of the social perceptions of anxiety, it is necessary to differentiate between the pupils’ perspective and the teachers’ perspective. A cross-situational analysis of sport-related anxiety can be determined by computing a mean anxiety score over the five situations for pupil, for type of rating: self-perception, social perception by pupils, and social perceptions by teachers.
