Author(s): John Lama and Dr. A Praveen

Abstract:
The present study aims to compare the aggression level between the Santosh Trophy and the Inter-University football players of the State of Mizoram, India. For this purpose, a total of 34 football players were randomly selected, with 17 players each from the Mizoram Santosh Trophy team and the Mizoram Inter-University team who participated in their respective tournaments in the year 2017, and with ages ranging from 19-28 years. The study was further delimited to obtain the aggression level of football players by using the Sports Aggression Inventory questionnaire developed and standardized by Prof. Anand Kumar Srivastava and Prem Shankar Shukla. The t-test was used in the data analysis to compare the aggression level in which the significant level was set at 0.05. There was a significant difference in aggression level between the Santosh Trophy and the Inter-University football players of Mizoram state. On the score of aggression the obtained ‘t’ was higher than the tabulated value which was required to be significant at (32) degrees of freedom at a significance level of 0.05. The findings showed that: 1) The Santosh Trophy and Inter-University football players of Mizoram state showed a significant difference in their levels of aggression. 2) The Santosh Trophy football players showed a higher aggression level compared to the Inter-University football players in the State of Mizoram.

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