A COMPARETIVE STUDY OF GROUP COHESION BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND NATIONAL KABADDI MALE PLAYERS

 Dr. Vijay Francis Peter 

ABSTRACT

To establish cohesion, everyone needs to be on the same page when it comes to team goals. If everyone is striving towards the same thing this will help cohesion develop. Productivity must be established by setting challenging and specific goals. Making sure the members know what the individual goals are, for themselves and their teammates, is very important. If you know what your teammates are striving for, many times you can aid them in their endeavor, which will lead to a more cohesive relationship. There can be no hidden agendas by any of the members, their goals must coincide with team goals. What’s good for the team has to be good for the individual and visa versa. The study had a clear purpose to investigate the level of university and national kabaddi players.  The subjects  for this study were 30 male kabaddi players shall range between 18 to 30 years. The Criterion measure chosen by Carron  The questionnaire used for the study were the group environment questionnaire developed by Brawley, and widener which assess team cohesion of players. To compare the team cohesion of university of national player’s t-test was applied to observed significant differences at 0.05 levels. Significant difference was found among national and university players in case of group cohesion (ATG-T) where as there is no significant difference was found among university and national players group cohesion i.e., ATG-S, GI-T and GI-S.

Keywords: Cohesion, Group, Kabaddi, University and National