A comparative study of personality traits and sports performance between junior and senior level basketball players of Delhi

Abstract

This study is aimed at to know the personality traits of basketball of junior and senior level players and relation with sports performance. Through this study we try to know the various personality traits like neuroticism, extroversion, social desirability and psychoticism affect the performance of the player of basketball who have participated at state, national, and inter university championship. This study has been done on 60 basketball players who are practicing at various centers at New Delhi. Their performance was assessed and points were given by three experts who are the qualified coaches working in sports authority of India. And the marks of certificates were given. In this study the questionnaire was filled by different junior and senior level basketball players. The statistical analysis was done by applying the mean, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation, and ANOVA to get the results.