An assessment study of achievement motivation among athletes and volleyball players of Chaudhary Charan Singh University

Abstract

Achievement Motivation defined as the need to perform well or the striving the success as the need to perform well or the striving for success and evidenced by persistence and effort to achieve high performance in sports. Motivation is based on your emotions and achievement related goals. Achievement Motivation is the desire to excel at task. The purpose of the study is to find out the level of achievement motivation among Athletes and Volleyball Players of Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. The sample for the study consists of 50 Athletes and 50 Volleyball players those who have participated in the Inter College Tournaments of Chaudhary Charan Singh University. The Standardized Dr. B.N. Mukharji Achievement Motivation scale were used for the study. It was found the Athletes are having more Achievement Motivation than Volleyball players because Athletes required compulsory motivation to achieve excel in performance. It is concluded that individual sportspersons like Athletes set goals and aims to give level best performance to win the competition, where as the Volleyball Players depend upon their group to give the high level of performance. It is recommended that achievement motivation is compulsory for all sportspersons to achieve high excellence in sports. The coaches must prepare all the sportspersons with high level of motivation to excel in sports and games.