Author(s): Sahil Preet Bedi

Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to compare Ability to Handle Pressure and Concentration between Open and Closed Skill Athletes. For this purpose, Eighty (N=80) female university level athletes of 19 to 25 years of age group were selected to act as subjects. They were further divided into two groups which includes n = 40 open skill athletes and n=40 closed skill athletes. The psychological sub-variable namely Ability to Handle Pressure and Concentration were taken up for the present study. To determine the significant differences between Open and Closed Skill Athletes, Unpaired t-test was employed for data analyses. To test the hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05. The t-value 0.37 was found statistically insignificant (P>.05) for the sub-variable namely Ability to Handle Pressure. In case for the sub-variable namely Concentration, the t-value 0.21 was found statistically insignificant (P>.05).

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