Study of psychological traits of sports persons at different levels of sports participation

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to compare the psychological characteristics of intercollegiate and intervarsity female basketball players. Total forty subjects were randomly selected (20 from intercollegiate and 20 from intervarsity) from Jammu University; Jammu and Kashmir was taken as a sample. The age of participants ranged between 18-25 years. Specific Sports Personality Test devised by Cheema and Singh (2005) [19] was administered to all the subjects of the study. All the subjects were informed about aim and methodology of the study and they volunteered to participate in this study. ‘T’ test independent was used to analysis the data, level of confidence was set at 0.05 level. The results show that personality traits of sportspersons showed that in the parameters such as Sociability, Dominance, Extraversion, Conventionality, Self-Concept and Mental Toughness, there were significant difference between intercollegiate and intervarsity female basketball players of Jammu University and there were no significant difference in the component of Emotional Stability between intercollegiate and intervarsity female basketball players.