COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERCEPTUAL ABILITY AND CREATIVITY ABILITY OF SOCCER PLAYERS PLAYING ON DIFFERENT PLAYING SURFACES

Mr. Randeer and Dr. Vinay Pawar

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare grassy surface soccer players and non grassy surface soccer players on selected perceptual and creativity ability. For this purpose 60 soccer players with mean age of 24.6 ±1.74 year from Pune city were selected as subjects. Further they were divided into a group of 30 grassy and 30 non grassy surface soccer players. All the subjects participated in this study were practicing and experience of playing in selected surface from sufficient period of time. For measuring the selected variables i.e perceptual ability and creativity ability questionnaires constructed by Dr. Krishnanand Choudhary et al (1989) and Dr. Rajamanichakam (1999) was used. This questionnaire was appropriate as per the objectives of the study and easy to administrate to get the precise responses from the subjects without taking much of their time. Independent “t” was used as a statistical tool to find out the significance difference between the grassy and non grassy surface soccer players. The results of the study indicated that there were statistically insignificant difference were observe in all the selected perceptual and creativity ability.

Keywords: Soccer, Perceptual Ability, Creativity Ability, and Grassy