A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMPETITIVE ANXIETY LEVEL BETWEEN FOOTBALLERS & HOCKEY PLAYER FROM G.H.G KHALSA COLLEGE GURUSAR SADHAR (LUDHIANA)
Abstract
Study examined the competitive anxiety between Footballers and Hockey players. Total forty (N=40) male subjects were selected for this study, twent (N=20) Footballers and twenty (N=20) Hockey players, who are member of G.H.G Khalsa College Gurusar Sadhar football & hockey teams were examined during Inter college Competitions. Competitive anxiety was measured by applying Modified Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (Modified CSAI-2) prepared by Jones & Swain, 1992, which includes sub-variables of cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, and selfconfidence. The age of Footballers and Hockey players ranges from 17 to 28 years. The Mean, SD and ‘t’-value were calculated to find out the significance of difference and direction of difference between Footballers and Hockey players. The level of significance was set at 0.05.The results revealed significant difference with regard to sub-variables cognitive anxiety and somatic anxiety between Footballers and Hockey players. The results with regard to the sub-variable of self-confidence were found to be no significant between Footballers and Hockey players. However, the results with regard to the variable competitive anxiety (total) were found statistically no Significant.
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