Scores on an Atari video game, Martens's Competitive Anxiety Scale and Life Experience Survey, and coaches' ratings of actual performance over 10 home basketball games were obtained for 8 black players and 7 black controls. Several significant (p ≤ .01) correlations of anxiety and performance with stress were low to moderate and encourage a full-scale study with a larger sample and standardized measures.
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