COMPARSION BETWEEN FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND ATHLETES AS RELATED TO COMPETITIVE ANXIETY
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the sports competitive anxiety of hockey players and all India interuniversity football players. Forty six male subjects (23 football players and 23 a ll India interuniversity track runners) were included as subjects for the study. The range of their age was from18 to 25 years. The data of the subjects on sports competitive anxiety was gathered by a questionnaire developed by Martens (1977).The data from football players was collected during coaching camp for South Asian Federation games at Calcutta and Chennai. The t test was used to analyze the data. Results indicated no significant difference between football players and all India intervarsity track athletes.
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