doi no.: 05-2016-44975451, DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2019-13378534/

Dr. Ashish Kumar Nigam¹

Affiliations

1 Sports   Officer,  Office of  DSW, JNKVV,  Jabalpur (M.P.) Mobile- 9826348748

ABSTRACT

The purpose ,of study was to assess and analyze the perceived purpose of sport among Inter-University level male cricket players. A purposive sample of three hundred and fifty inter-university level male cricket players representing there respective university teams in west zone cricket tournament held at Bhopal (M.P.), were selected as the subject of the study. Subjects perceived purpose of sports was assessed by a 46 item Purpose of Sport Questionnaire developed by Duda (1989). To determine the significance of difference among the scores on different sub factors of perceived purpose of sport of cricket players,  mean, SD and  Analysis of Variance were computed.  He revealed that the inter-university level male cricket players gave more importance to physically active life style, function of sports participation and improvement in  an individual’s co-operating skills and desire for personal mastery among the purpose of participation in cricket should be serve.

Keywords: Males, Cricketer, Perception, social status, cooperation, life style.

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