COMPARISON OF SELECTED PSYCHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AMONG DIFFERENT PLAYING POSITIONS IN FOOTBALL
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- 1. Associate Professor, Mannaniya College of Arts and Science, Pangode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
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This study under investigation involves the comparison of selected psychological parameters among different playing positions in football. Thirty six college level male football players between 18 and 25 years of age group (mean age = 21.45 ± 0.8 years) studying in various colleges around Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala were selected as subjects. Among the thirty six players 12 were defenders, 12 were midfielders and 12 were attackers. Anxiety was assessed by Rainers Marten’s Questionnaire and the standard psychological tool devised by M. L. Kamalesh was used to assess the sports achievement motivation.Analysis of variance and scheffe’s post hoc test were used. In all the cases, 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as an appropriate. It was observed that there were insignificant differences in anxiety among football players at various playing positions. It was observed that attackers having high sports achievement motivation among football players than the other position players.
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