Sport Imagery among Basketball Players from Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research

Year 2017, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 156 - 173, 30.09.2017

Gaurav Dureja Davinder Sıngh Gagandeep Sıngh

Abstract

Background: The present research aimed at measuring sport imagery among basketball
players from Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER). Method: Sixty
(N=60) male basketball players of inter IISER sports meet with the age group of 18 to 28
years were selected through purposive sampling technique to act as subjects from Indian
Institute of Science Education and Research. They were further divided into five groups:
Group-A twelve (N=12) from IISER Mohali, (n=12), Group-B twelve (n=12) from IISER
Pune, Group-C twelve (n=12) from IISER Bhopal, Group-D twelve (n=12) from IISER
Kolkata, Group-E twelve (n=12) from IISER Thiruvananthapuram. Statistical analysis: One
Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed to compare the entire groups. Where ‘P’
values found significant then Least Significant Differences (LSD) Post-hoc test was applied to
find out the direction and degree of difference. The level of significance was set at P>0.05.
Conclusions: It is concluded that results revealed significant differences among male
basketball players from Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research i.e. IISER
Mohali, IISER Pune, IISER Bhopal, IISER Kolkata and IISER Thiruvananthapuram on the
sub-parameters; cognitive general(f=2.45,P<0.05), motivational specific(f=2.61,P<0.05), ,
motivational general-arousal(f=2.58,P<0.05), motivational general-mastery(f=4.26,P<0.05)
and parameter sport imagery (Total) (f=2.86,P<0.05). However no significant differences
have been observed on the sub-parameter cognitive specific (f=.70, P>0.05) and cognitive
general (f=2.46, P>0.05) among male basketball players from Indian Institutes of Science
Education and Research i.e. IISER Mohali, IISER Pune, IISER Bhopal, IISER Kolkata and
IISER Thiruvananthapuram

Keywords

Sport imagery, Basketball, IISER

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