A cross-sectional analysis of selected psychological variable (self-awareness) of baseball, softball and cricket players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the significant difference of a Psychological variable i.e: Self-awareness among female Baseball, Softball and Cricket players. The survey method through the technique of questionnaire of emotional intelligence (Hyde et al. 2001) had been adopted to collect the relevant data for this study. The researcher collected the data on ninety (N=90) Group-A: Baseball (n1=30), Group-B: Softball (n2=30)), Group-C: Cricket (n3=30) female Baseball, Softball and Cricket players as subjects between the age group of 18-28 years. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0 was used for all analysis. The differences in the mean of each group for selected variable were tested for the significance of difference by One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). In the analysis, the 5% critical level (p