Authors : S hirbhayye A. A. and Mardikar M . A.
Page Nos : 23-25
Description :
Sports psychology is an area, which attempts to apply psychological factors and principles of
learning, performance and associated human behaviour in the whole field of sports. The purpose of the
study was to measure and compare self motivation of state le
vel volleyball players on gender basis. All the
male and female state level volley ball players between 18
-
21 years of age from different zones of
Maharashtra state was the population for the stud. Total sixteen teams were participated. Therefore total
pop
ulation was all the participants who were present (N=192). Self motivation scale test constructed and
standardized by Lyle, R. Johnson was used to measure self motivation of subjects. After data collection,
data will be analyzed by using Independent‟s te
st. It was observed from the findings that there was
statistically significant difference in self motivation of state level volley ball players on gender basis as per
mean gains girls were less self motivation than boys.