Author(s): Mallikarjun Sharanappa and Dr. Jayashree Makawana

Abstract:
The participation in sports rather influences the whole personality of the athlete. Sports influence all aspects of athlete’s personality and help him in gaining poise and balance, refreshing the spirits, renewing the inner springs of faith and courage, mastering the skills, adjusting in the society and meeting the strains of modern life with ease and calmness. Every athlete dreams and tries to be the best and every coach is faced by the problems of how to bring about the best performance or in other words to motivate the team or the athletes on an individual basis. To measure the impact of socio-cultural deprivation on the level of achievement motivation of women athletes, the investigator has selected total 200 samples. Among them 50% Rural and 50% Urban both deprived and non-deprived groups. The investigator adopted personalized interview method for the collection of information related to personal and socio-demographic status of the respondent. As the purpose of the study was to find out the impact of socio-cultural deprivation on the achievement motivation level of sportsmen and sportswomen, the mean, SD were calculated, ‘t’ values were calculated to test the significant difference between the samples. The results shown there is a significant difference of achievement motivation between the high and low deprived athletes. The low deprived were found to have high achievement motivation than the high deprived athletes.

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