doi no.: 05-2016-44975451,DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/06.2018-63648896/

Aradhna Saxena¹

Affiliations

¹ Lecturer, Department of Physical Education, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur (M.P.)

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to assess and analyze the attitude, belief and behavioural intention of sports women towards regular participation in sports. Four hundred twenty four (N=424) sports women of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, 106 subjects in each group of school, university, national and fitness group were selected from amongst the players representing their respective teams in various schools, universities and national championship of different sports and games. The attitude, belief and behavioural intention questionnaire developed by Ajzen and Fishbein (1980) was used to collect the data from the selected sample. To assess the selected variables, mean, standard deviations  F-ratio were computed. In case of significant ANOVA, Least significant difference (LSD) test of post-hoc comparisons was applied to assess the significance of difference between ordered paired means.  The results of study revealed that Sports women of all four levels differ significantly only on behavioural intention,  But they did not differ on subjective norms .

Keywords: Behaviour, women, Intention, norms ,  Participation levels, Attitude.

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