ANALYTICAL SELF CONCEPT STUDY ON SPORTS PERSONS OF ASSAM

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to see the self-concept of sport students of Assam. The
researcher used Manual for Self Concept Questionnaire (SCQ-s) provides six separate
dimensions of self-concept. The inventory contains 48 items. Each dimension contains eight
items. Each item is provided with five alternatives. Total 200 student sport players who
participated in different level of tournament in different events District, State, Inter College
and Inter University are randomly collected. The delimitation both male and female aging
17-18 years students are taken for the study. The questionnaire containing 6 (six) dimension
used in this study. Physical: - Individuals’ view of their body, health, physical appearance
and strength. Social: - Individual’s sense of worth in social interactions. Temperamental: -
Individuals view of their prevailing emotional state or predominance of a particular kind of
emotional reaction. Educational: - Individual’s view of themselves in relation to school,
teachers and extracurricular activities. Moral: - Individual’s estimation of their moral worth;
right and wrong activities. Intellectual: - Individual’s awareness of their intelligence and
capacity of problem solving and judgements.
Self-concept of the students sports players males is 3% High, 80% above average
and 17% average self-concept; for female 4% High, 83% above average and 13% average
self-concept; and for total 4% High, 80% above average and 16% average self-concept is
found in this study. There is no below average and low self-concept are found in student
sports players of Assam. Since the calculated Chi-square value of X2 = 0.48205 is smaller
than the critical Chi-square tabulation value of (CV = 5.991464547), this is strong evidence
to accept the null hypothesis of Proportion of self-concept in associate with gender at 0.05
level of significance. The p-value 0.785818396 > .05, accept the null hypothesis. There is
strong no evidence of a difference in the proportion of self concept in associated with gender
difference of student sport person of Assam.