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标题：AGGRESSION IN ATHLETICS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
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作者：RAKESH TOMAR ; RAHUL SINGH
期刊名称：Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport/Science, Movement and Health
印刷版ISSN：1224-7359
出版年度：2012
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：31-34
语种：English
出版社：Ovidius University Press
摘要：By nature human beings are competitive and ambitious for the excellence in all athletic performances.Not only every man but every nation wants to show their supremacy by challenging the other nation.Thus these challenges stimulates,inspires and motivates all the nations to sweat and strive to run faster,jump higher,throw further in present competitive sports world.Aggression has long been a part of the sports domain.Outside of wartime,sport is perhaps the only setting in which acts of interpersonal aggression are not only tolerated but enthusiastically applauded by large segment of society.In fact Lorenz advocates that sport ought to be substitute for war.In other words,because all competitive sports situations hold some degree of hostility between opponents,participants in them allows aggression to be dissipated in an acceptable manner.Objectives.The purpose of the study was to compare the level of aggression between Jumpers and Throwers of all India Inter University.Research Hypothesis There would be a significant a difference between the Throwers and Jumpers on the degree of aggression.Methodology.For the purpose of present study twenty five thrower’s and twenty five jumpers from 65th All India Interuniversity Athletic Meet 2004-2005 held at Acharaya Nagarajuna University,Guntur from 28th December 2004 to 1stJanuary 2005 were selected randomly as the subjects for the study.The age of the subjects were ranging from 18 – 25 years.The criterion measure chosen to test the hypothesis was the scores obtain in sports aggression inventory by Anand Kumar and Prem Shankar Shukla.Sports Aggression Inventory consists of 25 items in which 13 items are keyed “YES” and 12 are keyed “NO”.The aggression questionnaire was distributed to throwers and jumpers of 65th All India Interuniversity Athletic Meet 2004-2005 held at Acharya Nagarjuna University,Guntur from 28th December 2004 to 1st January 2005.To ensure maximum cooperation from the subjects the research scholar had a meeting with selected subjects in presence of their respective coaches.Subjects were oriented and explained regarding the purpose and the procedure of the questionnaire.For the purpose of analysis of data‘t’ test was employed to compare the degree of aggression between throwers and jumpers.Results and Findings.The mean value (13.72) of throwers on aggression was found to be higher than the jumpers of 65th All India Interuniversity athletic championship,which revealed that throwers were more aggressive in comparison to the jumpers.Scholar was unable to locate the literature to support the above finding however reasons for throwers being more aggressive would be use of implements.Furthermore the physique and body structure of throwers would be other reasons for aggressiveness.Within the limitations of the present study following conclusions may be drawn;(1)In regard to aggression there was a significant difference between the means of University level throwers and jumpers.(2) The aggression level of throwers was found to be higher than the jumpers.
关键词：aggression;jumpers;throwers.