Assessment on mental toughness for male and female boxers of Haryana

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to study the mental toughness between male and female boxers of Haryana. For this purpose, total 80 footballer boxers (40) male and (40) female players with the age group of 17 to 21 years were selected as subjects. All the subjects, after having been informed about the objective and protocol of the study, gave their consent and volunteered to participate in this study. For the study only Bhiwani SAI center and Hisar SAI center was selected for the study. To assess the level of subjects with regard to their mental toughness, Mental Toughness Inventory (MIT) developed by Middleton et al. (2005) was used. To find out the significance of mean differences between male and female boxers players ‘t’ test was applied. The level of significance was set at 0.05level. The data obtained after scoring the questionnaires is to be statistically analysed on computer through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 16.0.