Comparing Personality Traits of College and University Level Ball Game Female Sports-Persons

Sports psychologists and coaches are interested in the measurement of personality traits of athletes and players, which has become an important area of study of psychological aspects of sports. The development of personality and the achievement of desirable social values have been the objectives of sports and physical education since early times. The present study is concerned with the selected psychological characteristics of sports-persons at different level of participation. For this purpose, psychological characteristics like sociability, dominance, extraversion, conventionality, self-concept, mental toughness and emotional stability along with external and internal locus of control were studied for 300 female sports-persons who had participated at inter-college and inter-university level of competition in ball-games.