COMPARISON OF SELECTED PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES WITH PLAYING ABILITY OF VOLLEYBALL AND BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Mr. Tahir Ramzan Bhat, Mr. Shahbaaz and Dr. Brij Kishore Prasad

Abstract

For the present study forty (40) male Volleyball and Basketball players who represented inter-collegiate tournament of D.C.P.E Amravati University were purposively selected for this study twenty from each game. The age of the subjects was ranged from 18 to 25 years. The data pertaining to this study was collected by administering the standardized test of Jhonson Basketball test and Modified Brady Volleyball test to assess the playing ability of the subjects. To measure the selected psychological variables of will to win, sports aggression and sports competitive anxiety the standardized questionnaires of Anand Kumar and P. S. Shukla and Reiner Martin respectively were used. To determine the significant difference in the selected variables between the Volleyball and Basketball players Independent t-test was applied separately. To establish the relationship of playing ability with the selected variables Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation statistic was employed separately for Volleyball and Basketball players. The findings of this study showed insignificant difference for each variable of Will to win (t=1.14), Sport Aggression (t=1.50), and Sport Competitive Anxiety (t=0.13). The findings of correlation statistics also showed insignificant relationship in between Volleyball playing ability and selected psychological variables i.e. will to win (r=-0.204), Sport Aggression (r=0.215) and Sports Competitive Anxiety (r=0.274). Basketball playing ability was negatively correlated with Sports aggression (r=-0.789) which is statistically significant, whereas will to win (r=-0.000747) and Sports Competitive Anxiety (r=0.036) were found insignificant. To test the hypothesis level of significance was set at .05.
Keywords: Will, Win, Sports Aggression and Sports Competitive Anxiety