A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SELF CONFIDENCE BETWEEN FEMALE FOOTBALL AND HOCKEY PLAYERS OF BANGALORE REGION

Abstract

This study aimed to Comparing the self-confidence levels of female district-level hockey and football players in the Bengaluru region. A squad of 80 female athletes, 40 of whom played football and 40 of whom played hockey, were chosen. The participants had to be between the ages of 16 and 20. The Self-Confidence Inventory, created by Basavanna M. (1975), was used to gauge selfconfidence. It was a 100-item survey with Yes/No answers and a maximum score of 100. To evaluate group differences, data were gathered and analysed using descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and an independent samples t-test. Football players had considerably greater levels of self-confidence (Mean = 41.70, SD = 11.40) than hockey players (Mean = 28.40, SD = 3.84), according to the data. According to the independent samples t-test, there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups (t = 6.054, p < 0.001), and the self-confidence levels of football players also varied more. The findings show that Bengaluru's female football players had more diverse and higher levels of self-confidence than their hockey counterparts. These findings imply that football programs should keep encouraging and supporting high levels of confidence while also highlighting the necessity for focused psychological therapies to boost self-confidence among hockey players. It is advised that more research be done to examine the fundamental causes of these variations. It is recommended that additional research should be performed to examine the fundamental causes of these variations