Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to find out the achievement motivation and manifest anxiety level among intercollegiate high, medium, low level of achievement in soccer players. To achieve the purpose of the study sixty six (n=66) male soccer players were randomly selected from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University affiliated colleges, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu and their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. For the present study the following variables achievement motivation and manifest anxiety were selected. The selected Standardized kamlesh sports achievement motivation questionnaire was used to assess the achievement motivation and Standardized manifest anxiety questionnaire was used to assess the manifest anxiety. The collected data from the three groups of the selected variables were statistical analyzed to test the significance of the mean difference and the groups on selected criterion variables one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used at 0.05 level of significant. The analysis of the data reveals that there was significance difference in achievement motivation in the three selected group’s namely high, medium and low achievers. In variables achievement motivation high achievers were better than medium and low achievers. Further the analysis reveals that there was no significance differences exist in the variables Manifest Anxiety of three groups.
Author Name : A.Praveenkumar & Dr.S.Arumugam
Keywords: Motivation, Anxiety and Soccer.
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