COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANXIETY AMONG SPRINTERS, JUMPERS, THROWERS AND LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS OF ELITE UNIVERSITY ATHLETES OF KERALA STATE

ANEESH RAJAPPAN; Dr. V. A. MANICKAM

Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2016

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANXIETY AMONG SPRINTERS, JUMPERS, THROWERS AND LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS OF ELITE UNIVERSITY ATHLETES OF KERALA STATE

Aneesh Rajappan, Dr. V. A. Manickam

Abstract :

Long distance runner of Kerala state. To achieve this purpose, one hundred and twenty (N=120) male athletes who had participated in the Inter–University athletic meet during the year 2014–15 were selected randomly from each category of sprinters, jumpers, throwers and Long distance runner thus a total of 120 athletes from all the University in Kerala State. The athletes� age ranged between 18 and 24 years. The study was restricted to Psychological Variable such as Anxiety. Anxiety of the players was assessed by using the SCAT Questionnaire. The experimental design for the study was static group comparison design. One–way Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to find out the difference among the University sprinters, jumpers, throwers and long distance runners on the selected variables. As the obtained F–ratio was significant, the Scheffe‘s test was used as a post–hoc test to find out the significant difference between each cell. There was a significant difference among sprinters, jumpers, throwers and long distance runner on the selected psychological variable such as Anxiety. Further the results showed in anxiety sprinters have higher anxiety when compared to jumpers, throwers and long distance runners.