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Spanish
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Abstract
In sports, studying the dimensions of anxiety involved in an individual’s practice of an activity has become one of the key themes of the psychology of sport and exercise. The study aim was to find out the predictive effects of various training variables on precompetitive anxiety in a large sample of 1795 long-distance runners. Of these, 85.65% were men, aged M = 38.98 (SD = 10.45), and 14.35% female, aged M = 37.88 (SD = 9.80). Data were collected using a Spanish adaptation of the Revised Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2R) and several training variables. Moderate levels of cognitive and somatic anxiety and very high self-confidence were obtained, for both men and women, with no significant differences by gender, as well as valuable data describing training, which served to obtain solid predictive models of anxiety and self-confidence that were discussed.