A Comparative Study on Mental Toughness for Male and Female Kho-Kho Players of Haryana

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to study the mental toughness between male and female Kho- Kho players of Haryana. For this purpose, total 30 Kho-Kho players (15) male and (15) female players with the age group of 19 to 24 years were selected as subjects. For the study only Rewari district from Haryana 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 Kho- Kho players’’ 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.