A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF SOCIAL SUPPORT BETWEEN DISTRICT AND STATE LEVEL HANDBALL PLAYERS
Abstract
The present study was focused to assess the level of social support between district and state level handball players. A group of 30 subjects (15 district and 15 state) aged 17-25 years participated in the study. The purposive sampling technique was used to attain the objectives of the study. All the subjects, after having been informed about the objective and protocol of the study, gave their consent and volunteered to participate in this study. To measure the level of Social Support was measured by applying Social Support Questionnaire prepared by Zimet. To determine the significant differences between district and state level handball players, unpaired t-test was employed for data analyses. To test the hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05. It is concluded from the results Social Support (i.e., Family, Friends, Other Significant Persons and Social Support) between Handball players of district and state are presented in table-1. In case of Social Support, significant between-group differences were found for Family (t=2.98*), Friends (t=4.75*), Other Significant Persons (t=5.18*) and Social Support (t=2.48*).
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