A Comparative Study of Sports Aggression and Sports Competition Anxiety between Rural and Urban Area Players

Abstract

Introduction: The objective of this study was to investigate the sports aggression and sports competition
anxiety between rural and urban area players. Another objective of this study was to investigate the sports
aggression and sports competition anxiety of male players from rural and urban areas, as well as that of
female athletes. Methods: The subjects for this study were selected 400 players from rural and urban area
from western Uttar Pradesh (U.P.). The subjects wear equally divided into two groups 200 rural (100 male
& 100 female) and 200 urban (100 male & 100 female) players. After that all subjects will be equally
divided from i.e. 40 players is divided into two groups 20 rural (10 male and 10 female) and 20 urban area
(10 male and 10 female) in each game (athletics, badminton, boxing, basketball, cricket, football, kabaddi,
shooting, volleyball & wrestling). The age of the subjects were ranged between 16 to 18 years. The variables
selected for evaluation included sports aggression and sports competition anxiety. To measure sports
aggression between the players from rural and urban areas, the ‘Sports Aggression Inventory' developed
by Anand Kumar and Prem Shankar Shukla was used, while the ‘Sports Competition Anxiety Test
(SCAT)’developed by Martin Renier was used to assess sports competition anxiety. To find out significant
different of sports aggression and sports competition anxiety between rural and urban area players and
sports aggression and sports competition anxiety of male players from rural and urban areas, as well as
that of female athletes, ‘t-test’ was used. The level of significance was set at .05 levels. Results and
Discussion: The result reveals the ‘t-test’ that there was significant (p>.05) for sports aggression and
sports competition anxiety between rural and urban area players and sports aggression and sports
competition anxiety of male players from rural and urban areas, as well as that of female athletes.