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Abstract:The study's goal was to look at sportspeople's achievement motivation in relation to their pessimistic attitudes. A total of 100 male athletes from various team sports were purposefully chosen to be the study's subjects. The individuals' ages ranged fro m 17 to 30, with the average age being 21 (+SD) years. Handball (20), Wushu (20), Cricket (20), Baseball (20), and Hockey (20) athletes with at least All India InterUniversity level participation in their respective sports disciplines were the subjects. To assess the attitude of Inter Varsity Sports person from different sports Pessimistic Attitude Scale (Parashar, 1998) was used. The collected data was analysed by computing Descriptive statistics, Independent t-test followed by Pearson’s Product moment correlation. The level of significance was set at 0.05 levels. Descriptive statistics, Independent ttest, and Pearson's Product Moment Correlation were used to analyse the collected data. The significance threshold was set at 0.05. Keywords: Achievement motivation, sports, participation.

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