This paper aims at creating the measurement of athletes` stress. About 340 athletes attending high schools or universities were selected as the subjects for the purpose of this study, but 316 of them were the real subjects for the ultimately operated data on the factors causing stress. Questionaires adapted from Competitive State Anxiety Inventory(CSAI) designed by Martens, Burton, Rivkin and Siman were used to put Competitive Anxiety Factor to the test ; questionaires included in Sports Cohesion Instrument (SCI) developed by Yukelson, Weinberg and Jackson were used to test Team Cohesion Factor ; questionaires presented in A Study on the Measurement of Job Stress (I) by Lee Jong-mok and Park.Han-ki were modified to be suitable for athletes and used to test communication factor and family factor. 54 questions were selected out of preliminary questionaires for testing the above -mentioned factors, and principal component factor was analyzed by means of Pearson correlation coefficient matrix on the basis of the responses to 54 questions. As a result, 12 factors and variable quantities that they could take turned out to be 60.20% . 47 questions, which had more than .30 as each factor loading in 12 factors, were selected out of 54. questions as a resultof Uarimax Rotated Factor Analysis of these 12 factors. The selected 12 factors game, counsel, sports-external disturbance, team cohesion, athletic sports, communication, training, spectators. We suggest that athletes undergo stress while they are under situations-competitive or ordinary-concerned with these 12 factors.

• 이계윤 | Kae Yun Lee