A Comparative Study of Sports Emotional Intelligence between Rural & Urban Female Wrestling Players of Nashik District: The Impact of Locality on Sports Emotional Intelligence in Female Wrestling Players

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare sports emotional intelligence between the rural and urban female wrestling players on the basis of their Inter collegiate performance 15 urban female wrestling inter collegiate players (n=10 age, 19.5 years) as well as 15 rural female wrestling inter collegiate players (n=10 age, 19.1 years) from Nashik district. Female wrestlers were selected through simple random sampling technique for the present study. To measure sports emotional intelligence of selected subjects. Five dimensional sports emotional intelligence questionnaire prepared by Agashe Helode (2008) was used. A results reveals that urban female wrestling inter collegiate players exhibited significantly superior sports emotional intelligence as compared to rural female wrestling inter collegiate players. It was concluded that rural and urban female wrestling players belongingness affect sports emotional intelligence of urban female wrestling inter collegiate players