A comparative study of sports achievement motivation between kabaddi and volleyball players

Abstract

Achievement motivation is defined as a way for an individual to develop or demonstrate high ability in two ways: reference to one’s own performance or mastery, or reference of oneself relative to others. The purpose of the study was to compare the sports achievement motivation between Kabaddi and volleyball players that take part in inter college sports competitions. For this study the researcher selected twenty-five (25) kabaddi players and twenty-five (25) volleyball players. The subjects were randomly selected for this study, between the age group of 18-28 years and the level of significance 0.05. To measure sports achievement motivation between kabaddi and volleyball male players, a questionnaire developed by Kamlesh (1990) was employed and for statistical analysis and interpretation of data mean, standard deviation and ‘t’ test was conducted. The result shows that there was no significant difference in sports achievement motivation among kabaddi and volleyball players.