A comparative study of psychological factor among female athletes

Authors

  • Anita Singh Research Scholar, Singhania University, Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan
  • Devender Singh Parmar Director Physical Education, Rajesh Pilot Govt. P.G. College, Lalsot

Keywords:

Caste Tension, Language Tension, Communal Tension, Comprehensive Tension, Tension Regional Tension, Religious Tension Cultural

Abstract

Psychological needs play an important role in the promotion and demotion of tension, because any type of tension provide frustration and these frustrated needs leads towards aggressiveness in the individual, need of direct gain, power, and prestige, need for resolving ambiguous cries and for group belongingness and conformity are the main needs which appear to be of utmost importance. The most of the tensions are due to physical, social, cultural, religious, economic, political and psychological cause, and the stability of the tension has been found to be due to high competition, lack of common goals, lack of contacts, value conflict, ignorance, partiality, prejudices, conformity, and maladjustment and to achieve dominance by someone. The objective of this paper is to study to measure different kinds of tension viz. communal tension, caste tension, and religious tension cultural tension regional tension and language tension. For this purpose Fifty female athletes of age group 18-25 participated in south-west zone inter-varsity tournament of respective sport viz judo, badminton; table tennis, wrestling, swimming, and athletics, during 2007-2008 were selected as subjects for this study at random. COMPREHENSIVE SCALE OF TENSION by Dr. Rajeevlochan Bhardwaj was used. Reliability—IT POSSESS SPILT-HALF RELIABILITY OF .81 THROUGH Spearman Brown Formula and of .88 by Gutman Formula. The reliability of data was ensured through tools reliability as well as tester’s reliability. The information gathered was treated with ANOVA  (F-Ratio) technique was used for comparing all the six sports with respect to Locus of control’s-Score- All the scores of comprehensive tension scale are converted to T-Score to find out the level of tension in each of six sports and also in total. It is found from The findings that the study indicates that there is no significant difference among female players of Athletics, Weight Lifting, Judo, Badminton, Swimming and Table Tennis.  

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Published

2016-01-31

How to Cite

Singh, A., & Parmar, D. S. (2016). A comparative study of psychological factor among female athletes. International Research Journal of Engineering, IT & Scientific Research, 2(1), 8–21. Retrieved from https://sloap.org/journals/index.php/irjeis/article/view/240

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1: January 2016

Section

Research Articles
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