A STUDY OF SPORTS ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION OF HANDBALL PLAYERS PARTICIPATING AT DIFFERENT LEVEL

Dr. Mukesh Solanki

Abstract

The concept of motivation specially, achievement motivation, has attracted the interest of many coaches and researchers working with athletes. Motivation appears to be the key to accomplishment, whether it be in sports, In teaching, in research or in some other challenging pursuit; volumes have been written about the various theories of motivation. The purpose of the study is to analyze and investigate the sports achievement motivation of handball players participating at three different levels. 60 male handball players who have participated at National University and inter collegiate level serve as subjects each for this study 20 each for three groups was selected randomly. Sports Achievement Motivation Test constructed by M. L. Kamlesh was used for the collection of data for this study. In order to find out the comparison of achievement motivation level between three levels of Hand Ball players the F- Ratio (one way analysis of variance) was applied and level of significance was set 0.05. There was significant difference found between the mean scores of three levels of hand ball players. National level player’s Sports Achievement Motivation was found superior then inter-collegiate level players. National level player’s Sports Achievement Motivation was found superior then Inter-University level players. There was no significant difference found between the inter-collegiate level players and inter-university level players.

Keywords: Motivation, Sports Achievement, School, College and National level