Abstract:
To achieve the purpose of the present study, thirty five male first division cricket players from Chennai were selected as subjects and their age ranged between 21 and 31 years. The standardized psychological tool devised by Kamlesh M.L. was used to quantify the sports achievement motivation of players. J.B. Rotter’s Internal External Locus of control scale is a measure of personal belief and this tool was used to assess the Locus of control of the cricket players. Sports team relationship was measured using sports relationship scale devised by Shahin Ahmed and Swaminathan V.D. The performance was determined by subjective rating of the players by three experts and used as the criterion variable. To find out the relationship between Sports achievement motivation, Locus of control and Team Relationship with performance of first division cricket players descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product moment correlation at 0.05 level of significance was used. The results of the study showed that there is a significant relationship between Sports Achievement Motivation and performance, Locus of control and performance & Team Relationship and performance of first division cricket players.
Author Name : Dr.K. Kannadasan & Sudha, P
Keywords: Sports achievement motivation, Locus of control, Team relationship, Performance.
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