THE STUDY OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF COMPETITION

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyse the Achievement motivation among the football players at different levels of competition. For this purpose 191 football players were selected as subjects who had won first four positions in Panjabi University Inter-college tournament, All India Inter-University and National level football championship. The criteria measure adopted for the present study for the selected variables was- Achievement Motivation which was assessed by Sports Achievement Motivation Test by Dr M L Kamlesh. This test was used to assess the achievement motivation of football players at different levels of performance. The data was collected by administering Sports Achievement test on subjects for psychological characterstics. Mean and standard deviation was calculated for all the variables and secondly ANNOVA test was applied to find out difference of motivation level at college, inter-university and national level. On the basis of the finding of the study, it was revealed that insignificant difference was found between mean among the three groups at different levels of competition in relation to Achievement motivation.