The effect of socio-economic status on the physical fitness of sports persons of bidar taluka

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of socio-economic status on the physical fitness of sports persons of bidar taluka.in this study to measure the socio- economic status of the sports person, Bharadwaj’s (1971) socio- economic status scale was used and data was collected. And then 50 sports persons of high socio-economic status and 50 sports persons of low socio-economic status ranging age group of 18 to 25 were selected randomly from bidar taluka. To analyze the physical fitness of selected sports persons, the motor components test were conducted. To find out the significant effect of socio-economic status on physical fitness of sports persons belonging to bidar taluka, means, standard deviations and t-values were computed. The result of the study indicated that there was a positive effect of socio-economic status on physical fitness of sports persons of bidar taluka. In this study significant difference between high socio-economic status and low socio-economic status was observed.