IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

Dr. R. Soundara rajan

Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

EFFECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SKILLS TRAINING ON SELECTED PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL AND OVERALL PLAYING ABILITY OF VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Dr. R. Soundara Rajan

Abstract :

The present study is mainly concerned with volleyball players participating in high level competitions. Nowadays, the game volleyball is becoming a professional sport rather than a competitive sport. So the competitiveness among the volleyball players is growing up day by day with a different colour. Reasons for such competitiveness arises naturally among the players, because of pressures such as equal competition, and concern about fulfilling the expectation of their teachers, coaches, parents, peer group and personal needs. It leads to mental and physical stress. In high level stress, the player’s vision may have to be narrow and they are unable to understand the things around them. Hence under high level stress, players are unable to show their real effort in matches though they are having the needed physical and mental resources. The study consisted of 30 male volleyball players selected from PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore. Their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. Subjects were randomly assigned Group I underwent psychological skill training group and Group II control group. The subjects of Psychological Skills Training Group (PSTG) were treated with psychological skills training (imagery training and progressive muscle relaxation training) for about six weeks in addition to their physical training traditionally they practiced, whereas in the case of subjects of control group, they were allowed to practice only physical training practiced traditionally. The following variables were selected for the present study of finding the magnitude of effects of psychological skills training on the performance of physiological systems due to psychological impacts on aspects and skill performance of volleyball players. As psycho– physiological variables, psychologically the chosen variables were cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, self confidence, and physiologically systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, resting heart rate and overall playing ability. The present study pays attention mainly to test the mean difference of two groups, (Experimental and Control Group) and secondarily deals with the increase of means in each group, from baseline to post treatment for various measures. The means gains recorded by the Experimental and Control Group groups in the pre–test and post–test were tested for significance by applying paired ‘t’ test. To determine whether the training programmes produced significantly different improvements in selected variables after 12 weeks of training, the analysis of co–variance was used. The result of the study reveals that there was significant difference in 0.05 levels.