Locus of Control between Combat and Non-Combat Sports Athletes of Indian Universities

This study based on the comparison between combat and non-combat sports athletes of Indian Universities with regard to locus of control. Each and every athlete truly participated in AIIU tournament at least single time in the session 2014-15 & 2015-16. The research was conducted on a sample of total two hundred forty (N=240) male athletes, which further splits into two groups i.e. first combat sports athletes group comprises of one hundred & twenty (N1=120) athletes from Fencing (40), Judo (40) and Taekwondo (40) and second group includes one hundred twenty (N2=120) athletes from Softball (40), Netball (40) and Baseball (40).The age of athletes were ranging from 20-23 years. All the subjects were informed nearly the intention and methodology of the study and they agreed to participate in this investigation. The data was collected with the help of Locus of Control Scale developed by J. B. Rotter (1982). The independent samples t-test was applied to assess the differences between combat sports athletes and non-combat sports athletes. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The results discovered that there were no statistically significant differences between combat and non-combat sports athletes in respect with locus of control (p≥0.05).