Manipulate of Progressive Muscle Shrinking Exercise on Elected Psychological Character of Female Kabaddi Players

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to find out the manipulate of progressive muscle shrinking exercise on elected psychological character of female kabaddi players. To achieve this purpose of the study 30 female students studying in the faculty of arts, education and sciences, Annamalai University, Chidamdaram were selected as subjects at random. Their age ranged between 18 to 24 years. The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2, also developed by Martens, et.al (1990) were used to collected relevant data. The selected subjects were divided in to two equal groups of fifteen each. The experimental group participate in the muscle lessening exercise for 3 days a week and for 6 weeks 25 minutes per session. The control group maintained their daily routine activities and no special training was given. The selected variables namely cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self confidence. The collected data were analyzed statistically through analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significant difference, if any between the groups. Whenever the obtained “F” ratio was found to be significant, The 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the level of significance which was considered as an appropriate. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference exists between muscle lessening exercise group and control group. The muscle lessening exercise group showed significant improvement on cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self confidence level compared to control group.

Author Name : K. Jayachandran

Keywords: Muscle lessening exercise, cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self confidence.