Comparative study of the Sports Achievement Motivation between Male and Female School Basketball Players

Abstract

Several factors influence the selection of the specific sports participation of the current study. First the researcher's familiarity with basketball through participation experience, specially with regard to motivation, initially spurred interest in the examination of motivational difference among male and female basketball players. Like physical fitness, the psychologist status of male and female basketball players is different. However, such a comparative study of sex-wise difference on sports achievement motivation in basketball is measure. Thus the purpose of the present study was to compare the Sports Achievement Motivation between Male and Female School Basketball Players of Pune City. SAMT consist of 20 Multiple Choice Questions of 40 marks. Each Question carries two (2) marks for correct answer and zero (0) mark for wrong answer. The question measured the extent to which student were motivated towards sports achievement. Considering the population of the study, stratified random sampling technique has been employed and the sample size has been targeted in this investigation to 40 male and 40 female basketball players (age group: 14- 17 years) who participated in the inter school level tournament. Statistical tool was used for accurate and systematic results. Independent t-test was use as Statistical Technique for comparative analysis. And the level of significant was set at 0.05 level. The result indicated that there is no difference on achievement motivation between male and female school basketball players of Pune city. Achievement Motivation between male and female inter-school basketball players of Pune city is found same.