A comparative study of self confidence among female university level cricket players from different states of north India

Abstract

A Total of sixty (N=60) female university level players, twenty (20) from each state i.e. Delhi, Punjab and Haryana (Mean Age 22) were volunteered in this study. Standard Hardy and Nelson (1992) questionnaire for self-confidence was used to measure the self confidence level of the subjects. The test consists of four questions with six levels of responses. The levels of changes from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The respondents were made to encircle the appropriate number, which suited their attitude. The scale was revalidated by administering the questionnaire on 54 active players of North Bengal University. This scoring range of this questionnaire was 4 to 24. The higher score indicate the high level of self-confidence. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to find out the overall mean significance difference of three groups and least significance difference (LSD) post-hoc test was used to measure the paired mean significance difference. The results revealed that Female cricket players from Haryana state possessed higher self-confidence than the Punjab and Delhi players.