A Study of Self Concept Emotional Maturity and Anxiety of Inter Collegiate Cricket Players in relation to Age Gender and Area

Abstract

The individual or team players ability does not depend merely on physical, newlinetechnical and tactical qualities but also on psychological considerations. Personality, newlineself-concept, emotional maturity, motivation, emotional intelligence, anxiety, locus of newlinecontrol, etc. are few important concepts of study in the field of sports newlinepsychology.These psychological concepts play an important role in inducing newlinesportsmen to exhibit the best possible performance during competition.Cricket is a newlinegame that requires many psychological challenges and demands. So that players must newlinedeal with psychological challenges and demands to become successful players. The newlineaim of the present study was to study the self-concept, emotional maturity and anxiety newlineof cricket players in relation to age, gender and area. For the present study with the newlinehelp of random sampling techniques a huge sample of 400 Inter-Collegiate Cricket newlinePlayers were finalized from colleges of Parbhani, Nanded, Latur and Hingoli districts, newlineaffiliated to Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded. Out of which newline200 were male and 200 were female Inter-Collegiate Cricket Players belongs to urban newlineand rural area. To measure the self-concept, emotional maturity and anxiety of Inter- newlineCollegiate Cricket Players Saraswat s Self-Concept Questionnaire, Dr. Singh and Dr. newlineBhargava s emotional maturity scale and Comprehensive Anxiety Test (SCAT) newlinedeveloped by Sinhaand Sinhawere used respectively. In the descriptive statistics, the newlinemeans and standard deviations were calculated and a 2x2x2 factorial design was used newlinefor calculation of F ratios. Post-Hoc (Tukey HSD) Analysis was also used. The results newlineof present study showed that 22 to 25 years age group of Inter-Collegiate Cricket newlinePlayers had significantly high Self-Concept, emotional maturity and had low anxiety newlinelevelthan the 18 to 21years age group of Inter-Collegiate Cricket Players. This study newlinealso reveals that urban Inter-Collegiate Cricket Players had significantly high on selfconcept, newlineemotional maturity and had low anxiety leveltha