The level of personal anxiety and need to seek for sensations in athletes

The article presents a study, which consists in studying the possible connection between sports and personal anxiety, their mutual influence. The aim is to compare personal anxiety and the need to seek for sensation in athletes and non-athletes, and to identify differences and similarities between professional and amateur athletes. A questionnaire was conducted, a questionnaire of the personal scale of the manifestations of anxiety by J. Taylor in the adaptation of T.A. Nemchinov, the scale of the need to seek the sensations of M. Tsuckerman. As a result of the study, it was revealed that professional athletes have a tendency to the predominance of anxious moods, frustration rigidity and they have more profound desire to develop and improve their abilities. People who pay attention to sports initially have mostly medium to high levels of search activity. This indicator is much higher for professional athletes.