The Comparative Study of Personality Characteristics of National Wrestling Player Hailing from Public Sector and Defence Organizations

The present study was comparative in nature, in which difference in selected personality dimensions between male Wrestling player employed in various public sector and defence services in India were assessed.50 male national Wrestling players (Ave.age 24.33 yrs.) employed in various public sector undertakings as well as 50 male national Wrestling players (Ave.age 25.97 yrs.) employed in various defence organizations of India were selected as sample.The Hindi version of Eysenck's PEN Inventory prepared by Menon et al (1978) was used to assess personality of selected subjects.Results reveals no statistically significant difference in psychoticism, extraversion and L-dimension of personality between male Wrestling players employed in public and defence sector but male Wrestling players employed in defence sector were found to be emotionally more stable i.e. low neurotic as compared to male Wrestling players employed in public services at .01 level of statistical significance.It was concluded that male national Wrestling players employed in defence sector were emotionally far more stable as compared to male national Wrestling players employed in defence sector.