• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.5819-5828
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• 2015

This study was carried out to analyze how psychological anxiety factors perceived by sky divers at the time of sky diving affect self-confidence. To that end, a survey was executed on 150 sky divers and 123 questionnaires were selected for the final analysis with SPSS v.21. Major findings of the study are as follows: first, sky divers use stretching and breathing the most to cope with stress-related symptoms; second, psychological anxiety and self-confidence were different in religion, age and the number of sky diving; third, sky divers' psychological anxiety affects self-confidence negatively. This study will contribute to developing a program to help sky divers enhance psychological coping techniques to reduce anxiety while increasing self-confidence at the time of sky diving.