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AN ANALYSIS OF COPING SKILL USED BY DIFFERENT ATHLETES AMONG CLOSE SKILL GAMES
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Author(s):
JOGENDER SINGH , SAGAR CHOUDHARY
Vol - 5, Issue- 9 ,
Page(s) : 3 - 9
(2014 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/BBSSES
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the present study was to analyze the coping skills used by different athletes among close skill games. The study was conducted on 57 athletes who belonged from close skill game of Delhi University between the age group of 17 to 25 yrs. The following 14 sub variables were included Active coping, Planning, Suppression of competing activities, Positive reinterpretation and growth, Venting of feelings, Humour, Wishful thinking, Self blame, Seeking social support for emotional reasons, Seeking social support for instrumental reasons, Acceptance, Increased training effort, Denial, Behavioral disengagement.. Questionnaire (cope instruments) developed by Carver, Scheiver and Weintrets (1989) was administered for the collection of data. The data was analyzed by computing the following statistic i.e descriptive statistics and one way ANOVA. The results reveals that there is no significant difference found among the athletes of close skill games using the selected coping variables at .05 level of significance.
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