PERSONALITY TRAITS AMONG TEAM GAME ATHLETES OF INDIAN UNIVERSITIES
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to compare the personality traits among university level male athletes of selected team games. The present study was conducted on a sample of one hundred twenty (N=120) male athletes, which segregated into three sub-group consist of forty athletes each i.e. softball (n1=40); netball (n2=40) and baseball (n3=40) of age ranging from 20 to 23 years who participated in inter-university competitions organized by Association of Indian Universities. All the athletes were informed about the aim and methodology of the study and they agreed to participate in this study. The data was collected by using Big Five Personality Questionnaire developed by Oliver, P. John & Sanjay Srivastava (1999). The data was treated statistically with the help of One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Scheffe’s Post Hoc Test for significant F value. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Significant differences were found among team game athletes with regard to Extraversion (p≤0.05), Agreeableness (p≤0.05), Conscientiousness (p≤0.05) and Openness (p≤0.05)
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