Abstract :
The purpose of the study was to analyze the student‟s motivation towards sports and academics. To achieve this, a total of ninety students (men – 45 & women – 45) were selected as subjects at random from the affiliated colleges of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli and Tamilnadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai. The age of the subjects were ranged from 18 to 28 years. The selected subjects belongs from the three games such as basketball (n=30), football (n=30) and volleyball (n=30). The selected subjects were divided in to three groups according to their game and gender. Each groups consisted of 15 subjects. The academic and athletic motivation was selected as criterion variable and it was measured by using “SANSAQ” questionnaire which was constructed by Gaston Joy Leigh in the year 2005. Student Student‟s Motivation towards Sports and Academics (SANSAQ) questionnaire is six point Likert‟s scale. In the 30 item questionnaire 15 questions are measured academic motivation and remaining 15 questions measured athletic motivation. The static group comparison design was used for this study. All the subjects were tested on selected variables. The data pertaining to the variables were examined by using two way (2 x 3) analysis of variance for each variable selected for this study. If the obtained „F‟ ratio was significant, the “simple effect test” was used as a post hoc test to find out the paired mean difference. Whenever „F‟ ratio was found to be significant, the Scheffe‟s test was used as post-hoc test to determine the cell mean differences. The level of significance was fixed at .05 level of confidence for all the cases. It was concluded that, there was no significant difference exists among the men and women basketball, football and volleyball players on academic and athletic motivation. Also significant difference was found among men and women irrespective of three different games such as basketball, football and volleyball on academic motivation. However women basketball players showed better performance in academic motivation and men volleyball players showed better performance in athletic motivation when compared to other players.
Author Name : Dr. S. Sethu
Keywords: Motivation, Sports, Academics.
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