Self-Concept among State Level & North Zone Inter-Varsity Football Players

Sport has been a useful way for people to increase their mastery of nature and the environment. The history of sport can teach us a great deal about social changes and about the nature of sport itself. Sport seems to involve basic human skills being developed and exercised for their own sake, in parallel with being exercised for their usefulness. It also shows how society has changed its beliefs and therefore there are changes in the rules. Self-concept refers to the totality of a complex, organized and dynamic system of learned beliefs, attitudes and opinions that each person holds to be true about his or her personal existence. Parental upbringing, continuous failure, depression and internal self-critic are factors that influence the development of one's self-concept. A positive self-concept can be developed through behave objectively in knowing oneself, always appreciate oneself, be friend to oneself and always have a positive and rational thinking. Educational psychology can be referred to a distinct scientific discipline within psychology that includes both method of study and a resulting knowledge base. It is believed that the development of a player self-concept depends on the focus of coaches in sports psychology in practice. Educational psychology provides important background knowledge that pre-service and in-service educators can use as the foundation for professional practice. A positive self-concept can contribute to good academic achievement and high level performance by player optimistic personal expectations about himself or herself. Schendel, J. (1965) conducted a study on athletes and non-athletes and found that at both the ninth and twelfth grade levels generally displayed more positive personal and social self-concept than the non-athletes. Schendel, J. (1970) conducted another study by using non-parametric statistical procedures including the chi- square test, the maiden test and an analysis of variance reported that college athletes have higher positive self-concept than the non-athletes. Aderson (1994) reported no significant differences in the self-concept of Boxing group when compared with the gymnastic group. Harald and Elaine (2004) studied on "Difference in self-concept and mood between training champion and competition type athletic in Artistic type Roller and Figure Skating," this study found that competitors and training champions types significantly difference in certain type of self-concept and body-concept as predicted. The interpretation of the results will focus primarily on the implications of identifying the competitor type of athletes of enhancing the performance of the training champion type of athletes.

To achieve the purpose of the study 50 male subjects were selected from Haryana state between ages of 17-21 years. To assess the self-concept level of football players self-concept questioner constructed by Dr. J.K. Virk and Dr. B.R. Chauhan was used. It was administered during the competition of state level and north zone inter-varsity. Collected data was analysed by the help of key answers suggested by the author of the questioner and same was treated with statistical technique ‗t' test.

State 30 .97 6.35 1.23

3.805 29

Zone inter-varsity 30 1.00 6.76 1.16

*Significant ‗t' 0.05

The table reveals that mean, standard deviation, standard error of mean with regard to state were recorded .97, 6.35and 1.23 respectively where in case of north zone inter-varsity level the same were recorded as 1.00, 6.76 and 1.16 respectively and ‗t' ratio (3.805) was found significant at 0.05 level.

The presents study reveals that there is a significant difference in the self-concept, here north zone inter-varsity football players are better than state level kabaddi players.

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