Study on playing ability and sports achievement motivation of national level and club level women football players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to observe the difference in sports achievement motivation between national-level women football players and club level women football players. 32 national-level women football players of West Bengal and 32 club level women football players of Kolkata league were selected for this study. The age range of the players was 18 to 25 years. The questionnaire of M. L. Kamlesh (1995) was used to observe the sports achievement motivation level of the respective two groups. For statistical calculation mean, SD and were used. To find out the difference in sports achievement motivation between national-level women football players and club level women football players, the‘t’ test was applied at 0.05 level of significance. Coefficient of correlation was done to observe the relation between playing ability and sports achievement motivation of national and club level women football players. The result showed a significant difference in the level of sports achievement motivation between two groups of women football players. It was concluded that the sports achievement motivation of national-level women football players was higher than the club level women football players. Sports achievement motivation was significantly correlated with playing ability of national-level women football players but no significant correlationship was found in case of club level women football players of West Bengal.