A STUDY ON THE COMPARISON OF ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPETITION OF FEMALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN NATIONAL AND JUNIOR NATIONAL LEVEL IN SRI LANKA

Abstract

Attitudes are the mental dispositions people have towards others and the current circumstances before making decisions that result in behavior Attitudes influence an individual’s choice of action, and responses to challenges, incentives and rewards. Football is a world popular sport which needs more physical and mental fitness. Football even in those instances it truly is mind over body. Now a days in Sri Lankan sport field the female participation for the football matches have developed. So the main objective of this study is to comparison of attitudes towards the competition of female football players in National and Junior National level in Sri Lanka while the specific objectives are to evaluate the attitude of football players’ entirety of the force, meaning for the competition, assessment of strength of the opponents, guidance for the opinions of others, in National level female football players and o evaluate the attitude of football players’ entirety of the force, meaning for the competition, assessment of strength of the opponents, guidance for the opinions of others, in Junior National level female football players. National and junior national female football players in Sri Lanka will be selected as the study population. From that population, 180 of players selected as Ninety national players and Ninety school football players will be selected from every provinces as a sample. Cluster sampling method will be used to select the sample from the Sri Lankan female football players. ANOVA, t test and Levene’s test were used as analysis tool of the study. According the results there was statistically significance difference towards attitudes of assessment of strength of the opponents in national level football players among provinces. And also there was statistically significance difference towards attitudes of guidance for the opinions of others in national level football players among provinces. And also there were statistically significance difference towards attitudes of assessment of strength of the opponents in junior national level football players among provinces. Although there was no any significance mean difference attitudes towards the competition of female football players in National and Junior National level, in the attitudes of entirety of the force and assessment of strength of the opponents had significance difference of variance among two level s in the case of these two attitudes. KEY WORDS: Attitude towards Competition, Female Football Players, National level, Junior National Level