Association between Swimming Performance and Selected Psychological Variables of Indian Male Swimmers

Author(s) Name:

V.Selvam & Prof. R. Subramanian

Abstract:

The aim of this study was find out the association between swimming performance and selected psychological variables such as mental toughness and stress among Indian male swimmers. To achieve this purpose of the study fifty Indian male swimmers who had attended coaching Camps at NIS Patiala were selected as subjects. The subjects selected were in the age group between 18 to 23 years. Swimming performance were determined through freestyle 100 M swim and the time was recorded. Mental toughness was measured through Mental Toughness Questionnaire and stress was measured through “Stress scale. The questionnaire on mental toughness and stress were scored based on the key for this purpose suggested by the authors and validated for this purpose during pilot study. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to determine the association between swimming performance (timing for 100 M swim) and the psychological variables selected mental toughness and stress of the Indian male swimmers. The results showed the descriptive statistics on swimming performance, mental toughness and stress. The association of swimming performance with selected psychological variables proved that there was significant relationship between swimming performance and psychological variable mental toughness of swimmers as the obtained ‘r’ value of 0.765 was greater than the required ‘r’ value to be significant at 0.05 level. It was also found that the swimming performance of swimmers was not related with psychological variable stress as the obtained ‘r’ value 0.018 was less than the required ‘t’ value to be significant at 0.05 level. It was concluded that mental toughness of Indian male swimmers was significantly associated with swimming performance.

Keywords:

Swimmers, Mental Toughness, Stress.

Please cite this article as:

V. Selvam & Prof. R. Subramanian (2020). Association between Swimming Performance and Selected Psychological Variables of Indian Male Swimmers. International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 7, 5(7), 43-45.