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A STUDY ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE OF BOXERS, WEIGHTLIFTERS AND WRESTLERS

    1 Author(s):  SUNIL RAYAT

Vol -  7, Issue- 4 ,         Page(s) : 159 - 163  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to assess and compare the social intelligence among boxers, weightlifters and wrestlers. For this present study, total two hundred forty sportsmen of different colleges of Panjab University Chandigarh India were randomly drawn to act as subjects. Out of these, eight male boxers, eighty male wrestlers were selected to act as subjects. Only those sportsmen were selected, who participated in inter college competitions. In order to measure social intelligence of subjects, Social Intelligence Scale developed and standardized by N.K. Chandha and Ms. Usha Ganesan (1986) was adopted. Mean and standard deviation, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Turkey Post Hoc Test were used as statistical techniques. The findings of the study revealed that boxers, weightlifters and wrestlers differ in perception of social intelligence. Boxers are more socially intelligent than weightlifters and wrestlers. The boxers possessed higher level of patience, cooperativeness, confidence and sensitivity level than weightlifters and wrestlers. Weightlifters possessed higher level of memory than boxers and wrestlers.

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