Temporal patterning of self-efficacy among university level basketball players

Abstract

Modern competitive sports of today demands more emphasis on the training of psychological aspects of sports. The purpose of the study was to ascertain the temporal patterning of self-efficacy among university level basketball players. Total sample comprised of 24 AIU Level players from two universities of Punjab namely, Lovely Professional University, Punjab (12), and Guru Nanak Dev University, Punjab (12). The age range was between 18-28 years. Sample was selected with purposive sampling technique. Self-efficacy Scale by Dr. (Mrs.) G.P. Mathur and Dr. (Mrs.) Rajkumari Bhatnagar, (2012) was used to measure self-efficacy and its rate of changes. To find out the significant difference of self-efficacy of AIU level basketball players at different time durations prior to competition, trend analysis was done by employing one way analysis of variance. the computed value of F ratio is 13.55 in relation to self-efficacy, which is higher than the tabulated value (2.71) at 0.05 level of significance with (3,92) degree of freedom. It shows that there is significant difference between mean values of self-efficacy obtained at different time durations prior to competition.