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| Article Name : | | | A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DEPRESSION BETWEEN SPORTS PERSONS AND NON-SPORTS PERSONS | | Author Name : | | | Vijay Prakash | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-143 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | The purpose of the study wastoassess and compare Depression between Sports Persons and Non-Sports Persons. For the purpose of the study, total 300 subjects will be selected in two groups i.e. 150 in Sports Persons (Individual Games-50, Combative
Games-50, Team Games-50) and 150 Non-Sports Persons i.e. (I.T.-50, A.G.-50, B.Sc.-50) were selected randomly on the basis of stratified random sampling. The subjects were selected from Banaras Hindu University and Mahatma Gandhi KashiVidyapith
respectively. (Subjects of Institute of Technology (I.T) were selected from Banaras Hindu University only.) The age level of the subjects ranged from 18 to 25 years. Keeping the feasibility criterion in mind, the Depression variable was selected for the present study.Depression was assessed with the help of Goldberg Depression Questionnaire (GDQ)
constructed and standardized by Ivan Goldberg. To assess and compare the level of Depression between sports persons and non-sports persons, Descriptive Statistics i.e. mean, standard deviation, t test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. The level of
significance was set as 0.05 level. Significant difference was found between the Depression of Sports Persons & Non-Sports Persons. | | Keywords : | | - depression
- sports persons
- non-sports persons
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