A study of emotional maturity among individual, team and dual sports: A psychological probe

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the significant differences among Individual, Team and Dual Sport Players on the variable Emotional Maturity. For the purpose of the present study, Two Hundred Fifty Eight (N=258), Male subjects between the age group of 18-25 years volunteered to participate in the study. The subjects were purposively assigned into three groups: Group-A: Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (N1=86); Group-B: Panjab University, Chandigarh (N2=86) and Group-C: Punjabi University, Patiala (N3=86). For evaluating the levels of Emotional Maturity among subjects, Singh and Bhargava’s (1988) Emotional Maturity Scale was used. 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). For testing the hypotheses, the level of significance was set at 0.05. To conclude, it is significant to mention in relation to Emotional Maturity that results of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) among Individual Sport, Team Sports and Dual Sports players were found statistically insignificant (P>.05).