A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MENTAL SKILLS AMONG INDIVIDUAL, TEAM AND COMBAT SPORTS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION
Keywords:
Imagery ability, Mental Preparation ability, Self-Confidence level, Anxiety and worry Management, Concentration ability, Relaxation abilityAbstract
Study Aim: To compare the mental skills among individual, team and combat sports. Methods: The researcher collected the data on sixty (N=60), Male athletes of Guru Nanak Dev University between the age group of 18-25 years. The subjects were purposively assigned into three groups; Group-A: Individual (n1=20), Group-B: Team (n2=20), Group-C: Combat (n3=20). The mental skills questionnaire based on the work of Hardy and Nelson (1996), which consists of 24 questions, was used. Statistical Technique Employed: The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0 was used for all analyses. The differences in the mean of each group for selected variable were tested for the significance of difference by One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Results & Conclusion: To conclude, It is evident that the results of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) among three groups with regard to the Imagery Ability, Mental Preparation, Self Confidence, Anxiety & Worry Management, Concentration Ability, Relaxation Ability and total Mental Skills were found to be statistically insignificant (P>0.05).
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