A Comparative Study of Sports Anxiety Between Male and Female Badminton Players from Maharashtra

The purpose of the study was, to compare the sports anxiety Between male and female badminton player from Maharashtra. For which 60 male player and 60 female players were selected using purposive sampling technique. Descriptive Comparative method was used to comparative between male and female badminton players from Maharashtra. The Sports Competitive Anxiety Questionnaire (SCAT) by R. Martin, 1977 was used to collect the data of Sports Anxiety. The data were collected using standard tools and techniques, further data was analyzed by using SPSS software. The Mean of the Sports Anxiety of male badminton players was 19.63 (±2.428) and the Sports Anxiety of female badminton players was 20.23 (±3.066). Researcher met every participant and by using Sports Competitive Anxiety Questionnaire by paper pencil method to the collected the data. Further for inferential statistics independent sample ‘t’ test method was used. The Calculated ‘t’ value was -1.188 for degree of freedom is 118. It shows no significant difference at 0.05 level of significance (P = 0.237). Hence, it can be concluded that there is no significant Sports Anxiety between male and female players from Maharashtra.