CONCEPT OF PERSONALITY AMONG COMBATIVE ATHLETES
Abstract
The present study was focused to examine personality characteristics among combative athletes of fencing, judo and taekwondo. For the smooth procedure of the study a sample of one hundred twenty (N=120) male athletes were selected. The age of Athlete’s were ranging between 20-23 years. The main sample further divided into three equal groups, i.e. fencing (40); judo (40) and taekwondo (40). Data of fencing, judo and taekwondo were compiling during All India Inter-University Championships held at Panjab University, Chandigarh in February 2016, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar February 2015 and March 2016 respectively. For the selection of the subjects random sampling technique was applied. All the subjects were informed about the aim and methodology of the study. Personality was measured by applying the Big Five Personality Questionnaire developed by Oliver, P. John & Sanjay Srivastava (1999). One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied to find out the significance differences with regard to personality among combat sport athletes. Post hoc test (Scheffe) was used to find out the paired means significance difference where 'F' value found statistically significant. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Significant differences were found among combative athletes with regard to Agreeableness (p≤0.05), Conscientiousness (p≤0.05) and Openness (p≤0.05).
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