A DATA MEANING APPROACH OF “SPORTS ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION” AND “SPORTS COMPETITION ANXIETY” OF INTER UNIVERSITY SWIMMERS
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare Sports Achievement Motivation and Sports Competition Anxiety Levels between male and female Inter University Swimmers in India and to find out relationship between Sports Achievement Motivation and Sports Competition Anxiety among male and female Inter University Swimmers in India. For the purpose of this study, 25 male swimmers and 25 female swimmers were randomly selected from Inter University Swimming Championship held at Bangalore, India on October, 2018. The subjects’ age were ranged between 18-25 years. To measure Achievement Motivation, Sports Achievement Motivation Test (SAMT) developed by M.L. Kamlesh in 1990 and to measure Anxiety, Sports Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) developed by Rainer Martens in 1977, were introduced respectively. For statistical analysis and interpretation of data Mann-Whitney Non Parametric ‘U’-Test and Pearson Product Movement Correlation were conducted. The level of significance was taken 0.05. The study found no significant difference between Sports Achievement Motivation and Sports Competition Anxiety Levels between male and female Inter University Swimmers. The study also found no significant relationship between Sports Achievement Motivation and Sports Competition Anxiety among male inter university swimmers but the study detected a significant negative relationship between Sports Achievement Motivation and Sports Competition Anxiety among female Inter University Swimmers.
Article visualizations:
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Sandhu G.S. Psychology in Sports (Delhi: Friends Pub.)1992, 92-94
Schilling T.A., Hayashi C.T. Achievement Motivation among high school Basketball and Cross country athletes: A personal investment perspective. Journal of Applied Sports Psychology, 2001; 13(1):103-128.
Adedeji Tella (2007) The Impact of Motivation on Student’s Academic Achievement and Learning Outcomes in Mathematics among Secondary School Students in Nigeria. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 3(2): 149-156.
Abrahamsen F.E.G.C., Pensgaard A.M., An examination of the factorial structure of the Norwegian version of the sport anxiety scale. Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (a Specialized University), Oslo, Norway, 2006; 16(5):358-63.
Kamlesh M.L. Manual of Sports Achievement Motivation Test. NIS Scientific Journal. 1990; 13(3):28-39
Atkinson J.W., Feather N.T. (Ed) (1966) A theory of Achievement Motivation, wily, New York, USA.
Cara L. Garcia (2007) Dialectic Dialogue for Academic Anxieties in the Dissertation Process, Ph.D. in Education, Pepperdine University.
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2019 Asim Kumar Halder, Ashish Phulkar
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright © 2020 - 2023. European Journal of Fitness, Nutrition and Sport Medicine Studies (ISSN 2668-9758, ISSN-l 2668-9758) is a registered trademark of Open Access Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
This journal is a serial publication uniquely identified by an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) serial number certificate issued by Romanian National Library. All the research works are uniquely identified by a CrossRef DOI digital object identifier supplied by indexing and repository platforms. All the research works published on this journal are meeting the Open Access Publishing requirements and standards formulated by Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003) and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) and can be freely accessed, shared, modified, distributed and used in educational, commercial and non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Copyrights of the published research works are retained by authors.
