(School of Physical Education,Liaoning Normal University,Dalian 116029,China) Abstract: By means of questionnaire survey, the authors probed into the characteristics of state anxiety and the dif-ferences in self-control with respect to excellent Chinese and foreign female tennis players when facing the compe-tition pressure of holding the service game, and revealed the following findings: when facing the competition pres-sure of holding the service game, excellent Chinese and foreign female tennis players had significant differences in state anxiety and the way of self-control: 1) as compared to the foreign players, the Chinese players’ state confi-dence level was relatively low, their cognitive state anxiety and body state anxiety levels were relatively high; 2) the Chinese players mainly used the restraint strategy for emotion control, while the foreign players mainly used the expression strategy; the Chinese players mainly used activated mobilization and target adjustment strategies for cognitive control, while the foreign players mainly used the attention improvement and activated mobilization strategies; for competition behavior control, the Chinese players mainly used conservative strategies, while the for-eign players mainly used active and risk taking strategies. Key words: sports psychology;excellent female tennis player;service game holding;state anxiety;self-control;ego-depletion
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