Assessment on Mental Toughness among Team Games of Haryana

People who remain calm and collective during pressure situations are mentally tough, this was opined by Loehr (1986) [3]. According to Loehr mentally tough athletes use their positive energy during play when situation becomes tense. The components which form mental toughness are self-confidence, ability to control fear, anger and frustration, focus, positive mental image, to persevere to achieve something, and attitude control respectively. One of the psychological variable i.e. mental toughness has been considered most valuable as far as sports performance is concerned by sports psychologists.

Total 120 male players of different games i.e. Basketball, Football and Hockey (Ave. age 23.31 yrs) who took part in interuniversity tournament were selected as sample. The selected sample comprise of equal number of subjects different team games belongingness. Mental toughness questionnaire prepared by Tiwari (2004) was used in the present study to collect data. Results reveal that mental toughness of Hockey male players is significantly higher as compared to other team games i.e. Basketball and Football players at .05 level of significance which is analysis by ‗t‘ test.

When compared on the basis of the residential area of the team games, the three team games namely Basketball, Football and Hockey shows a significant difference in mental toughness. The Hockey male player‘s shows higher mental toughness scores as compared to the other team games. The following graph depicts the mean mental toughness scores among the team games of Haryana.

The mean squares value of the self-awareness in case of basketball, football and hockey male players of Haryana is .275.67, 318.45 and 966.41 respectively. The obtained sum of squares between the groups is 4686.39 with in groups is 6687.50 and in total is 11373.89. The obtained f-ratio value among the basketball, football and hockey male players of Haryana is .866.

On the basis of results, it may be concluded that psychological qualities such as mental toughness differentiated in interuniversity volleyball players on the basis of their different team games belongingness.

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Assistant Professor, Physical Education Government College, Jind, Haryana