Abstract:
In this study totally forty five men soccer players were chosen from selected three universities such as Pondicherry University, Kaaladi University and SRM University. Those who have participated in the south zone inter university football tournament in the year 2014 at Calicut University, Kerala only were selected. From each university 15 players were selected for collection of data and their age ranged from 18 to 28 as per their university records. The following psychological variables were used like sports competition anxiety, task orientation and ego orientation. Questionnaire method was used for collection of data. In that the questionnaires were given to players and collected after filling it the investigator and suitable statistical tools were applied using SPSS 16th version. ANOVA technique was used to find out the differences between three universities. Since three universities were involved, whenever the obtained ‘F’ ratio value was found to be significant for adjusted post test means, the Scheffe’s test was applied as post hoc test to determine the best among the three universities, if any. In all the cases the level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 for significance. Result reveals that there is a significant difference among selected universities men soccer players on the variables of anxiety and task orientation but there is no significant difference among the university soccer players on the variable of ego orientation.
Author Name : Dr. S. Binthu Mathavan
Keywords: Anxiety, Ego orientation and Task orientation.
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