Abstract
The purpose of present study was to compare the psychological and social variables of physical education students of Punjab and Jammu Kashmir states. To obtain data for this study, the investigator had selected two hundred (N=200) subjects, out of which one hundred (N=100) from Punjab state and one hundred (n=100) from Jammu Kashmir state who were studying under the Department of Physical Education Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab) and Department of Physical Education & Sports, University of Kashmir (J&K). The age of all subjects ranged from 21 to 28 years. Selfconcept, anxiety, intelligence, were taken as psychological variables while as socio economic status and social attitude were chosen to measure social variables. The self-concept was measured by applying the Sinha’s, 1984 self disclosure inventory; the anxiety level of the subject by I.P.A.T anxiety scale questionnaire developed by Krug et al., 1992; the intelligence of the subjects was measured by R.K. Tondon’s, 1975 group test; socio economic status by Verma, R.P. & P.C Saxena index. 1984 and to measure social attitude, Raghavendra S. Singh, Amar NathTripathi and RamjeeLal’s Modernization Scale were used. The scoring was done for the respective questionnaire according to their manuals. “T” test was applied to determine the significance of difference and direction of difference in mean scores of variables between Punjab and Jammu Kashmir states. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The results revealed that no significant difference was found between physical education students of Punjab and Jammu Kashmir states on social variables. In psychology variables that is self-concept and anxiety no significant difference was found. However in the variable intelligence a significant difference was found between physical education students of Punjab and Jammu Kashmir states. Keywords: Physical education, Punjab, Jammu Kashmir.
Highlights
Psychology is the science of mind and behavior (Gray, 2010)
Singh (1992) found that with regard to inter-game differences on competitive anxiety, significant differences existed in competitive anxiety between the players of different games; both in the case of males as well as females
The‘t’ value 1.93 was found were 56.48 and 53.56 The‘t’ value 1.40 was found statistically lower than the table value 1.96. This shows statistically lower than the table value 1.96. This shows that no significant difference was found between Punjab that no significant difference was found between the two state physical education students and Jammu Kashmir
Summary
Psychology is the science of mind and behavior (Gray, 2010). Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components. It denotes the totality of attitudes, judgments and values of an individual relating to his behavior abilities and qualities. It is an emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something undesirable is about to happen or a frequent results of conflicts among motives and prominent factor in abnormal behavior. The aim of the present study is to determine the selfconcept, anxiety and intelligence level between physical education students of Punjab and Jammu Kashmir states.
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