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

Yıl 2016, Cilt: 18 Sayı: 3, 8 - 11, 31.12.2016

Biruk Amare Sorate , Asim Khan

Öz

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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

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

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