Relationship between Athletic Identity, Sports Motivation and Dispositional Optimism among College Students Participating in Individual Sports
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: Sports has been an integral part of all the cultures including the Indian culture. India has been developing rapidly when it comes to the sports participation and representation at the world level. Thus it has become apparent to find out the factors that promote sports participation, improve sports performance and maintain the performance further. This study tries to focus on such variables that might be the key to improving sports performance in the elite level college going athletes. The study investigates three variables Athletic Identity, Sports Motivation and Dispositional Optimism. Methodology: The data was collected using the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) for Athletic Identity, Sports Motivation Scale-28(SMS-28) for Sports Motivation factor and Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) for Dispositional Optimism. The data was collected from the population of 100 college going elite level athletes through purposive sampling method. The population consisted of athletes participating in various individual sports at the state, national and international level. It was a co-relational study trying to find out whether there exists a relationship between the three variables. Results: Results displayed a very poor and non-significant correlation between three levels of Athletic Identity and Dispositional Optimism (Exclusivity and Dispositional Optimism r = 0.081); Social Identity and Dispositional Optimism (r = -0.064) and Negative Affectivity and Dispositional Optimism (r = 0.129) and the R-Square value was found to be non-significant. Conclusions: It can be concluded from this study that there exists no significant relationship between Dispositional Optimism and Athletic Identity or Sports Motivation and Athletic Identity. Thus there is a need to explore further into other factors promoting sports participation.
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Ankita Dandekar, Jenifer Chandani, Archana Patki
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