The task and ego orientation of different games players of Jimma University

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to identify task and ego orientation on Jimma University Varsity Players of different games. For the purpose of this study 50 players (football, basketball, table tennis, athletics and gymnastics) were selected from Jimma University, Ethiopia as the subject. All these players were going to represent Jimma University in 9thEthiopian Governmental Higher Institutions Sports Festival in 2016. For this study Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ) (Duda, 1989) was used to measure task and ego orientation. Descriptive statistic (mean, standard deviation), Person correlation was computed to identify relationships between task and ego orientation in different games. Results indicated the results of each analysis were suggested criteria for an acceptable fit to the data. There was highly relationship between varsity players of different games (football with table tennis; and football with athletics) in task and ego orientation at p < 0.01, while there was relationship between basketball with gymnastics, table tennis with athletics and table tennis with gymnastics in task and ego orientation.

Keywords

• Athletics,basketball,ego,football,table tennis,task,gymnastics

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