A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SPORTSMAN SPIRIT BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE OTHERWISE ABLED SPORTSPERSONS

Author Name: 1Dr.Vikram Singh, 2 Dr. Parmod Kumar Sethi, 3 Dr. M. Chakravortti

Volume/Issue: 01/10

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/03.2021-78178985/UIJIR

Affiliation:

¹Assistant Director, Physical Education, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India

² Assistant Professor, Physical Education, PG DAV College (Evening), Nehru Nagar New Delhi -110058, India

³Associate Professor, Physical Education, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, India

ABSTRACT

Abstract Sportsman spirit is also known as sportsmanship in the sports setting. It has several annotations like fair play; sportsman spirit and displaying ethical character in sports so on and so forth. The term fair play means every player gets equal opportunity to display her skills and to win besides that a player should be truthful, firm and follow a code of conduct or set of pre-determined behavior despite being instigated to divulge from those moral values. Some of the practical manifestations of sportsman spirit encompasses virtues such as acknowledging one's mistakes, respecting the rules of the games/society, to be assertive but not angry etc., that can make sports a true source of inspiration to others, appreciating the exceptional performance of opponent, respect for senior players, coaches and officials, not taking advantage of opponent in injured condition. In general, sportsmanship refers to virtues like fairness, self-control, courage and persistence and has been associated with interpersonal concepts of treating others fairly, maintaining self-control in dealing with others, and respect for both authority and opponents. The aim of the present survey study was to compare sportsman spirit between male and female otherwise abled sportspersons of India. To conduct the study, 70 physically disabled male (36) female (34) table-tennis players of mean age 20.54±1.21 were studied as sample. The criterion for selection of subjects was minimum state level participation in any table-tennis (para-sports) up to national level. Sportsman spirit of selected subjects was assessed by Sportsmen Spirit Questionnaire prepared by L.N. Dubey (1988). Inferential statistics was used with SPSS-25 version. Independent t-test was applied to get the results. Findings showed statistically non-significant (p>.05) difference in sportsman spirit of male and female table-tennis players. Both males and females displayed above average sportsmen spirit as per classification table. It was concluded that participation in competitive sports is equally useful for development of human virtues such as sportsman spirit irrespective of gender.

Key words: Fair Play, Table-tennis players, Independent t-test