A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES AND PHYSICAL FITNESS COMPONENTS OF FEMALE PLAYERS BETWEEN BODY CONTACT AND NON BODY CONTACT GAMES

Kanchan; Sophie Titus

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES AND PHYSICAL FITNESS COMPONENTS OF FEMALE PLAYERS BETWEEN BODY CONTACT AND NON BODY CONTACT GAMES

Kanchan, Sophie Titus

Abstract :

It is a comparative study of selected psychological variables and physical fitness components of female players between body contact and non–body contact games, whose age is between 18 to 25years. Psychological variables for comparative study are motivation and aggression. Physical fitness components are agility, muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardio muscular endurance, explosive strength, etc. In this study the data were collected randomly from the various colleges and universities of Uttar Pradesh during the training of players prior their competition. Total 510 female players were selected as subjects, 85 from each game body contact and non–body contact. SMAQ and A–SCALE questionnaires are used to collect the data of motivation and aggression. The AAPHAR test battery is applying for collecting the data of physical fitness. The t–test was applied to find out the significance difference between selected variables. The level of significance was set at 0.05 level of confidence. After the evaluation of data, motivation, aggression, cardio muscular endurance, muscular strength and muscular endurance variables level were higher in body contact players than non–body contact game players. But in explosive strength and agility non–body contact player was better than body contact game players.