A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PERSONALITY TRAITS BETWEEN STATE LEVEL BOXING PLAYERS
Keywords:
Personality, Traits, BoxingAbstract
This study aims to investigate the personality traits between state level boxing players of Imphal
East and Imphal West districts of Manipur. Total 250 state level male players mean age (21.80 ±
2.13) years were taken as subjects in the study. Further they were seperated into 2 groups: A
(Imphal East) and B (Imphal West). T-test was executed to assess the between-group differences.
The level of p≤0.05 was considered significant. Significant between-group differences were
found for factors A (t=1.76), factors B (t=5.47), factors C (t=3.38), factors E(t=1.82), factors F
(t=1.95), factors G (t=4.48), factors H (t=3.00), factors I (t=4.49), factors L (t=5.16), factors O
(t=4.57), factors Q3 (t=3.37), factors Q4 (t=3.49) whereas no significant between-group
differences were found for factors M (t=1.63), factors N (t=1.36), factors Q1 (t=1.61) and factors
Q2 (t=1.39). Thus it may be concluded that personality traits of boxers from Imphal East and
Imphal West found to be statistically significant in factors A, factors B, factors C, factors E,
factors F, factors G, factors H, factors I, factors L, factors O, factors Q3, factors Q4 whereas no
significant between-group differences were found for factors M, factors N, factors Q1 and factors
Q2.
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