Comparison between hockey and basketball girls’ players on emotional stability

Abstract

For the purpose of the study, 40 subjects (20 Hockey and 20 Basketball) were selected randomly. All subjects were selected from Sant Baba Bhag Singh International School Khaila (Jalandhar). The age level of the subjects ranged from 15 to 17 years. The Emotional Stability Inventory developed by A San Gupta has been applied in the present study. The maximum possible score of this test is 15. In Emotional Stability Test for Children, each items of the test in scored as either +1 or 0. There are two types of items in this test, that is, positive and negative. All positive items which are endorsed by the subjects as ‘Yes’ and the negative items, items No. 9 and 10. Which are endorsed by the subjects as ‘No’ are given score of +1. A Score of zero is given to all other answers. This high score on the test indicates low emotional stability or control and whereas low score on the test indicates high emotional stability or control. The collected data were put to statistical treatment applying t’ test to find out the differences, if any between the hockey and basketball girls’ players. The level of significance was set at 0.05.the results come out were shows significant difference of Emotional Stability between hockey and basketball girls’ players