AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT IN BODY-CONTACT SPORT ATHLETES
Keywords:
Social Support, Body-Contacts Sports, Athlete.Abstract
The researchers of this study aims to know about the role of Social Support in Body-Contact Sport Athletes. For this purpose, the investigators had selected Forty only (N=40) male district level bodycontact sport athletes of 20 to 25 years of age to act as subjects. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the subjects. All the subjects, after having been informed about the objective and protocol of the study, gave their consent and volunteered to participate in this study. To measure the level of social support of the subjects, the social support scale constructed by Zimet et al. (1988). One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed to compare the body-contact sport athletes. Where ‘F’ values were found significant, LSD (Least Significant Difference) Post-hoc test was applied to find out the direction and degree of difference. For testing the hypotheses, the level of significance was set at 0.05. It is concluded from the above findings that insignificant differences among body-contact sport athletes on the variable social support
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