Motivation among individual and Team sports players

Abstract

The intention of the study is to discover out the level of motivation among Individual and team sports players. The model for the study consists of 50 Individual sports players and 50 team sports players are the contestants in the Kurukshetra University inter collegiate tournaments during the year 2014-2015. The age of the subjects was between 19 and 23 years. The standard psychology tool device by Dr. Kamlesh (1990) [1] was used to evaluate motivation. It was found the Individual sports players are having noteworthy difference in Motivation than team sports players because the individual sports players required necessary motivation to attain excel in sports then the team sports players is a group exertion. This type is study is useful to the physical educators, coaches and sports psychologists to enhance the performance through achievement motivation.