A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON AGGRESSION BETWEEN CRICKET AND VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Dr. Avadhesh Kumar and Mr. Ramesh Chand Yadav

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the degree of aggression between intercollegiate level cricket and volleyball players. Sixty male cricketers (N=30) and volleyball (N=30) players from the different colleges who was affiliated to CSJM University, subjects had represented in the intercollegiate tournament conducted by CSJM University, Kanpur (U.P.) and CCSPG College, Heonra (U.P.) in the academic year 2012-13. Subjects were selected were randomly for the purpose of the study. The age of the subjects were ranging 18 to 25 years. Criterion measure chosen to test the hypothesis was the scores obtained in Sports Aggression Inventory by Anand Kumar and Prem Sankar Shukla. For the purpose of analysis of data ‘t’ test was employed to compare the degree of aggression between cricket players and volleyball players. The result of the study shows that the significant difference between the mean of the cricket and volleyball players on the scores of aggression since the obtained value of ‘t’ (2.13) was higher than the tabulated value of ‘t’(2.01) at 0.05 which was  required to be significant at (58) degree of freedom with 0.05 level of significance.

Keywords: Comparative, Aggression, Cricket and Volleyball players.