Perception of students towards doping in Haryana

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to have an insight into the perception of university students towards doping in Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak of Haryana. To attain the objectives of the study, a sample of 50 students comprising of 18 under graduates, 29 post graduates and 3 research scholars was selected from the campus of Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak and the data were collected with the help of a questionnaire. The investigators found that Majority of students believed that doping is a cheating; only the quality of performance should not matter, but the way athletes achieve to it is also important; health problems related to hard training and Injuries are just as doping side effects; doping is a threat to fair play in sports; and most of students were having in the favour of complete ban of doping in sports. So, most of students want to be complete ban doping in sports.