STRESS RESILIENCE AMONG PLAYERS AND NON-PLAYERS

Abstract

Stress is the body reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response. Resilience is the ability to remain fully engaged in our life, work, energized, positive, focused and committed regardless of what one encounters. The aim of the study was to compare stress resilience among players and non-players by studying Deficiency Focusing, Skill Recognition and Necessitating among sports and non-sports persons. Moreover an analysis was made of the effect of gender on Skill Recognition. The study was conducted on 20 female players and 20 female non-players of hockey and archery from Punjabi University, Patiala. The age range of players and non-players ages 20-25yrs. They were administered the stress resilience Questionnaire designed by Kenneth W. Tymon Walter, Jr. English version. The results of the study show that there is no significant difference between players and non-players on stressresilience. Sports persons should have more stress-resilience but present study showed a different picture in which players scored low on stress-resilience. It is implicated that some sort of intervention must be planned to enhance their stress resilience which would result in low stress and high performance.