Influence of psychological variables on hockey balancing ability

Abstract

Sport is one of the greatest expressions of the aspirations to excel and to gain recognition and pleasure through skilful performance. Sport Psychology addresses the interactions between psychology and sport performance, including the psychological aspects of optimal athletic performance, the psychological care and well-being of athletes, coaches, and sport organizations, and the connection between physical and psychological functioning. The Purpose of the study was to find out the relationship between Psychological variables such as Sports competition anxiety and Self-concept and hockey playing ability (Especially Balancing ability) of Kuvempu university inter-collegiate men hockey players, by using standardizing questionnaires designed by Rainer and Martens (SCAT) questionnaire and Muktha Rani Rastogi, the subjects were ranging from up to 28 years, the data collected was treated with the statistical technique “r” test and there is no significance difference between hockey playing ability.