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[03心-口-11] EFFECT OF MEDITATION ON MENTAL TOUGHNESS AND SPORTS COMPETITIVE ANXIETY AMONG INDIAN TRIBAL ARCHER
Meditation, Mental-Toughness, Sports Competitive Anxiety, Archery
ABSTRACT The Primary aim of the study was to investigate the effect of meditation on mental toughness andsports competitive anxiety among Indian tribal archery players of Tribal regional part of Nashik (Maharashtra State) India. For the purpose of this study 20 male regular archery players of 18 to 25 years of age from Tribal regional part of Nashik (Maharashtra State) India were randomly selected as subject. Mental Toughness (MTQ48) questionnaire developed by Dr. Alan Goldberg was used to measure mental toughness and the score was noted down in number. Sports Competitive Anxiety Questionnaire developed by Heinssen, Glass & Knight, 1987 was usedto assess anxiety and the scorewasrecorded in number. To determine the effect of meditation on mental toughness and sports competitive anxiety among archery players independent and dependent‘t’ test was employed for each selected variablesseparately, the level ofsignificance was set at 0.05 for testing the hypothesis.The findings of the statistical analysis revealed thatsix weeks of meditation program showed significant improvement on Mental Toughness and Sports Competitive Anxiety among archery players.