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| Article Name : | | | Comparison Of Anxiety, Achievement Motivation And Personality Traits Of Basketball Players And Non-sportsmen | | Author Name : | | | Madan Singh Rathore | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-1630 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The purpose of the present study was to assess the personality traits, anxiety and achievement motivation level of basketball players and non-sportsmen. The study conducted on 360 samples, consisting of 120 inter-college level basketball players, 120 inter-varsity level basketball players and 120 non-sportsmen of different colleges and universities. Personality traits were obtained by administrating Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPi), Anxiety were obtained by competitive state Anxiety inventory (CSAI-2), and Achievement motivation were obtained by using Sports Achievement Motivation Test. The date collected through aforesaid tests, were analyzed with respect to two dimensions of personality i.e. extroversion and neurotic; three dimensions of anxiety i.e. cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self confidence and achievement motivation. Schaffe's multi comparison test was applied to compute the significance of differences among three groups. The significance of data was judged at 0.01 and 0.05 levels, respectively. The result of the study indicates that higher level performance group was more extrovert than low performance group and non sportsmen, whereas non sportsmen were more neurotic than those of high and low performance group. Cognitive anxiety and somatic anxiety of non-sportsmen were higher than inter-varsity level Basketball players, whereas third factor i.e. self confidence, of higher performance groups, was more than non sportsmen. Achievement motivation level of high performance groups was also better than non sportsmen. | | Keywords : | | |
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