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| Article Name : | | | A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMOTIONAL COMPETENCIES, MENTAL HEALTH & SELF-PERCEPTION AMONG MALE & FEMALE ATHLETES | | Author Name : | | | KHUSHI RAM BHAGAT , Y.P.SHARMA | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-120 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | The present study was undertaken to compare the emotional competencies,
mental health and self-perception among male & female athletes. For this study, total 98
athletes of different colleges of Himachal Pradesh University were taken to act as
subjects. Out of these 98 athletes, 59 male sprinters & 39 female sprinters were selected
to act as subjects. Only those athletes were selected, who participated in Inter college
competitions. In order to measure emotional competencies of subjects, scale of
emotional competencies developed and standardized by Dr.H.C.Sharma &
Dr.R.L.Bharadwaj (2007), Mental health battery developed and standardized by Singh
and Gupta (2008) and scale measuring self-perception developed and standardized by
K.G.Agarwal (1991) were adopted. Mean, standard deviation &'t' test were used as
statistical techniques. The findings of the study revealed that male & female sprinters
differ significantly in various emotional competencies like adequate depth of feeling,
adequate expression and control of emotions, ability to function with emotions, ability to
cope with problem emotions, enhancement of positive emotions and also differ
significantly in sub-variables of mental health like emotional stability & autonomy. | | Keywords : | | |
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