COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANXIETY LEVEL OF HIGH AND LOW PERFORMING CRICKET TEAMS
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to compare the pre-competitive anxiety level of the high performing and low performing cricket teams. The test was administered on 96 cricket players of six school teams of Bhiwani district in Haryana. All the subjects were tested on sports competition anxiety test by Martens R. (English 1977) whose reliability is 0.77 and validity is 0.81. The statistical techniques used to obtain the data were mean, standard deviation and t-test. The findings show that there is a significant difference in the pre-competitive anxiety level of high and low performing cricket teams. It was also observed that there is no significant difference in pre-competitive anxiety level between the winner & looser teams of each match. The results of the study will be discussed in details during the presentation.
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