COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPORTS ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AMONG CHESS PLAYERS IN RELATION TO THEIR LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE
Keywords:
Achievers, Chess, Achievement, Motivation.Abstract
The purpose of the study was to describe the relationship of Sports Achievement Motivation among chess players. Subjects selected for this research work were 300 chess players from India. Players were purposively selected on the basis of their level of performance. Subsequently, subjects were categorized into high achievers, moderate achievers and low achievers. In this process of selection of the subjects, the research scholar contacted and consulted in person with the chess players. The investigator also made sincere efforts to make them duly conversant with the nature and significance of his research work and urged upon them to extend their sincere and valuable cooperation for the purposive initiation and fruitful completion of this research project.
For the study questionnaires were administered on chess players during inter-college competition, all India inter university championship, senior national level competition and rating chess tournaments under World Chess Federation. The objective was to assess the various performance groups on state and trait anxiety and locate any significant difference among the groups. On testing the hypothesis it became evident that there existed a significant difference between high achievers-moderate achievers, high achievers-low achievers and moderate achievers-low achievers.
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