A comparative study of mental resilience: Anxiety and self-confidence in rural vs. urban athletes

The present study was conducted with aiming to explore the variations in the level of Self Confidence between Rural and Urban Players of Athletics. The purpose of this study was to compare the Self Confidence and Anxiety Level of Rural and Urban Players of Athletics belonged to Universities of Western U.P (India). In this study, Total 30 subjects comprising of 15 Rural Male Players and 15 Urban Male Players, Which were studying in Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut has been selected as subjects. All the subjects had participated at state level tournaments in respective games. In this study Dr. Miss Rekha Agnihotry’s Self-Confidence Inventotry (ASCI) and Dr. A.K.P Sinha and L.N.K Sinha, Sinhas Comprehensive Anxiety Test (SCAT) was used as a tool for data collection. The results after carefully examining the data revealed that anxiety among urban and rural male athletes, the findings revealed no significant differences between the two groups. Although A significant difference was found in the level of self-confidence between urban male players of athletics and rural male players of athletics. It was concluded that Self Confidence plays very important role in each sport person’s life irrespective of their standards of living or region