A comparative analysis on ability to handle pressure and concentration between open and closed skill athletes

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare Ability to Handle Pressure and Concentration between Open and Closed Skill Athletes. For this purpose, Eighty (N=80) female university level athletes of 19 to 25 years of age group were selected to act as subjects. They were further divided into two groups which includes n = 40 open skill athletes and n=40 closed skill athletes. The psychological sub-variable namely Ability to Handle Pressure and Concentration were taken up for the present study. To determine the significant differences between Open and Closed Skill Athletes, Unpaired t-test was employed for data analyses. To test the hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05. The t-value 0.37 was found statistically insignificant (P>.05) for the sub-variable namely Ability to Handle Pressure. In case for the sub-variable namely Concentration, the t-value 0.21 was found statistically insignificant (P>.05).