An Effect of Mental Toughness on Different Level of Participation in Soccer Players

Abstract

Many a time sportsmen are accused of not having mental toughness which is indispensable for high level performance. Thus, mental toughness becomes one of the most important aspects to be developed. Therefore, it has become the need of the hour to asses the degree of mental toughness in order to take necessary steps to improve the performance. The sample of the present study comprised of 40 male and female university badminton players of India. Keeping the view the purpose of the study they were divided into two groups: All India Intervarsity (N=30) and Intercollegiate (N=20) male soccer players. The result indicated that significance difference between all India intervarsity and intercollegiate male soccer players in the mental toughness level. It is evident that all India intervarsity and intercollegiate male soccer players in mental toughness test differed significantly on mental toughness as the obtained t-value of 1.688 is much more than the tabulated value t0.05 (58) = 1.671.