MENTAL TOUGHNESS IN HANDBALL PERFORMANCE: A KEY TO SUCCESS
Abstract
The present study was aimed to indentify the mental toughness in Handball Performance. To obtain data, the investigator had selected Twenty Four (N=24) male and female inter-college level handball players of R.K. Arya College, Nawanshahr, Punjab were selected for this study. The subjects were purposively assigned into two groups: Male Handball Players (n1=12) and Female Handball Players (n2=12). To measure the level of Mental Toughness among subjects, Mental Toughness Scale constructed by Goldberg (1998) was administered. To determine the significant differences of Mental Toughness in male and female handball players unpaired t-test was employed for data analyses. To test the hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05. In a nutshell it can be said that from the findings that insignificant differences were found between male and female handball players on the variable mental toughness and its sub-variables: Reboundability, Ability to Handle Pressure, Concentration, Confidence, and Motivation and Overall Mental toughness.
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