A study on psychological characteristics of national level football players of India

Abstract

The objective of the study was to study the psychological characteristics of national level football players of India. 50 National level male football players of India were selected as the subjects for the study. For the study the questionnaires of Mental toughness developed by Dr. Alan Goldberg, Aggression developed by Anand Kumar and P.S. Shukla and Inventory of Factors Influencing Sports Career by M.L. Kamlesh and T.R. Sharma was used. In order to describe the psychological characteristics of elite football player’s descriptive statistics was applied.