Psychological differentials in cricket players at different level of participation

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to compare the psychological characteristics of intercollegiate and intervarsity cricket 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. Sports Achievement Motivation Test, Mental Toughness Inventory and Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 were administered to assess psychological variables. 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 levels. The results show that that in the parameters such as sports competitive anxiety, mental toughness and achievement motivation there were significant difference between intercollegiate and intervarsity cricket players of Jammu University. The study also revealed that the intervarsity cricket players are better in mental toughness and achievement motivation and had lower competitive anxiety as compare to intercollegiate cricket players.