Impact of Different Individual Games on Selected Personality Traits

Abstract

The objective of the study was to find out the significant difference among the female elite players of five difference individual games in selected personality traits (Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism and Lie). The study was conducted by taking equal sample size related to five different Individual games. 100 Elite female players were selected from five different games. 20 subjects were selected from Athletics, 20 subjects were selected from Boxing, 20 subjects were selected from Badminton, 20 subjects were selected from Powerlifting, and 20 subjects were selected from Wrestling. The study was conducted by taking basic Personality traits (Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism and Lie) as an independent variable (I.V.) and by taking five different individual games as dependent variable (D.V.). It was decided to go for a Hindi version of Eysenck’s PEN Inventory prepared by Monen, D. K., & Malhotra, S. K., (1987). On the basis of the objectives of the study, descriptive statistics, One Way Analysis of Variance and LSD Post-Hoc test were used. Significant difference was found between paired means of Extraversion, the paired of Athletics & Powerlifting (sig. = .012), Boxing & Powerlifting (sig. = .008) and Badminton & Powerlifting (sig. = .017) at .05 level of significance. In Neuroticism, the paired of Athletics & Wrestling (sig. = .011) and Boxing & Wrestling (sig. = .027) were found significant. On the other hand, in Extraversion, the paired of means Athletics & Boxing (sig. = .459), Athletics & Badminton (sig. = .893), Athletics & Wrestling (sig. = .053), Boxing & Badminton (sig. = .382), Badminton & wrestling (sig. = .071) and Powerlifting & Wrestling (sig. = .545) were found insignificant