Effect of Mental Training on Self Confidence among Professional College Students

Author(s) Name: 

Dr.M.Suresh Kumar & A. Dinesh Kumar

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of mental training on self confidence among professional college students. To facilitate the study, thirty professional college students from Royal Polytechnic College, Pudukkottai, Tamilnadu were selected as subjects at random and their ages between 18 to 25 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups. In this study, mental training exercises were given to experimental group for the period of 6 weeks. Self confidence was assessed by Agnihotri Rekha self confidence questionnaire. The pre-tests were taken from the subjects before administrating the training. The subjects were involved with their respective training for a period of 6 weeks. At the end of the sixth weeks of the training post-tests were taken. The significant differences between the means of experimental group and control group for the pre-test and post-test scores were determined by paired t ratio. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level of confidence for the degree of freedom 14. The mental training had shown significant improvement in all the self confidence among professional college students after undergoing mental training for a period of six weeks.

Keywords: Mental training, Self Confidence, Psychological Wellbeing, Professional college students.

Please cite this article as:

Dr.M.Suresh Kumar & A. Dinesh Kumar (2017). Effect of Mental Training on Self Confidence among Professional College Students. International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 4, 12(10), 51-53.