2023, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Part F
A comparative study between male batsman and bowler in regard to selected psychological variables namely self-confidence and motivation
Author(s): Mona Yadav, Dr. Mahesh Sharma and Mayank Kaushik
Abstract:The present study deals with a study of psychological variable of first class male cricket players. The study conducted on 30 subjects taken from India using purposive sampling technique. The present study was done on male subjects only. The need of understanding the aspect of mental toughness of sports person is a main difference of winning and losing of equal level. Now a day’s sports psychologists are rigorously working and exploring this area of study to create maximum opportunity to win competition under toughest situation. Mental toughness in the current century is gaining importance and hence after extensively reviewing the literature in the field of physical education and in consultation of the guide and experts in this field mental toughness was selected as the variable for the study and sub-variables are self-confidence, motivation, the mental toughness questionnaire was used for the collection of the relevant data. The questionnaire is a standardized test and had been used worldwide by the several researchers. The questionnaire displays a high reliability and validity coefficients. For collecting the required data, the questionnaire was administered to 17 first class batsman and 13 first class bowlers of India. The data was collected from first class male cricket players of India. The collected data was analysed using appropriate statistical technique like, descriptive statistics followed by Independent Sample ‘t’ test at the level of significance was set at 0.05 level. The results revealed that no significant difference have been observed in self-confidence (.654), motivation (1.010).
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Mona Yadav, Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Mayank Kaushik. A comparative study between male batsman and bowler in regard to selected psychological variables namely self-confidence and motivation. Int J Phys Educ Sports Health 2023;10(1):417-420.