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Volume : III, Issue : X, November - 2013

Psychological Profile Of Long Distance Runners

Mohd. Kamil Khan And Joawad Ali

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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The present investigation was designed to prepare the psychological profile of long distance runners. For the purpose of this study 16 male Long distance runners who participated in all India intervarsity athletic meet in Chennai were recruited as the subjects. Their age ranged between 18 to 25 years. For developing psychological profile six important parameters selected were sports competition anxiety, sports achievement motivation, stress, social adjustment, body-image and sports morality. To acquire psychological responses of the subjects, Sports Competition Anxiety Test (Martens, 1977), Sports Achievement Motivation Test (Kamlesh, 1990), Occupational Stress Index (Srivastava & Singh, 1981), Social Adjustment Inventory (Singh and Shinha, 1990), Body Image Inventory (Singh, 1991) and Sports Morality Test (Slephea and Loyard, 1987) were administered on the subjects. The data thus obtained were subjected to descriptive statistical treatment. The results as evident in the table-1 revealed that, Sports Competition Anxiety of the long distance runners was ranged from 12 to 34(27.81), Sports Achievement Motivation ranged from 16 to 30(22.37), Stress level was ranged ftom 13 to 26(20.12), Social Adjustment ranged from 6 to 12(8.93), Body Image score ranged ftom 80 to 135(106.68) and Sports Morality reported to have been ranged from 25 to 72(51.62).

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Mohd. Kamil Khan And Joawad Ali, (2013). Psychological Profile Of Long Distance Runners. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. X, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/3307.pdf

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