2016, Vol. 3, Issue 5, Part A
Influence of personality traits and self concept on performance as an individual or as a team at college level
Author(s): Ved Parkash Sharma
Abstract:Sports psychology is of recent origin. There is a great advancement of games and sports now a days which was not prevalent in the past. Cratty confirms that intellectual involvement and intelligent decision making on the part of an athlete is a matter of experience. Morton Prince described, “Personality is the sum total of all the biological innate dispositions, impulses, tendencies, attitudes and instincts of the individuals and the dispositions and tendencies acquired by experiences. Gordon W. Allport said “Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psycho-physical systems that determine the individual’s unique adjustment to the environmentâ€
Sample of study: Twenty male subjects were selected from S.G.G.S Khalsa College, Mahilpur (Pb). Ten subjects from individual games and ten from Team games who had represented state level in their respected games. The age level of the subjects ranged from 17 – 25 years.
Hypothesis: It was hypothesized that there shall not be any significant differences between means of Self-Concept and Personality Traits among the individual and team games at the college level.
Statistical Analysis: To compare the Self-Concept and Personality Traits among individual and team games players, mean, standard deviation and uncorrelated t-test was applied. The level of significance was set at 0.05 levels.
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Ved Parkash Sharma. Influence of personality traits and self concept on performance as an individual or as a team at college level. Int J Phys Educ Sports Health 2016;3(5):15-17.