TO ASSESS MENTAL TOUGHNESS ON COLLEGE LEVEL BOYS IN COMPACT SPORTS LIKE BOXING, TAEKWONDO, WRESTLING, JUDO

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the assess how mental toughness influence on college level boys in compact sports like boxing, taekwondo, wrestling, judo. The study was delimited to the sports like Judo, Wrestling, Taekwondo and boxing of Kerala State. The age group of the participants was ranged from 16-24 years. The selected dependent variable mental toughness. The subjects were selected from four different disciplines namely Judo, Wrestling, Taekwondo and boxing of Kerala State. 50 women judo players, 50 boys wrestlers, 50 boys boxers, 50 boys taekwondo players were selected as subjects for data collection. The data’s were collected from them with the help of Mental Toughness Questionnaire by Alan Goldberg. Descriptive statistics, which help to describe a data distribution, such as mean and standard deviation of the scores were calculated for summarizing the collected raw data. In all the statistical tests, the level of significance was fixed at 0.05 levels. There was a significant relationship was seen between mental toughness. The value obtained was -.214 which indicated a significant negative relationship at 0.01 levels when compared with Boxing, Taekwondo and Judo.