COMPERISION OF LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR BETWEEN THE PARTICIPANT OF TEAM GAME AND INDIVIDUAL SPORT

The purpose of the study was to compare the leadership behavior between the participant of a team game and individual sports. To achieve the purpose of this study, sixty female Inter-university players were selected by using a random technique. The subjects belonged to different categories of sports such as individual sports (Track & Field and Swimming) Team games (Football & Basketball). The age of the subjects ranged from 17 to 24 years. The study was confined to the application of LEADERSHIP PREFERENCE SCALE by L.I. BHUSHAN (Professor and Head, Department. of Psychology, Bhagalpur University, and Bhagalpur). Consisting 30 items measure authoritarian vs. democratic leadership were employed for this study. The data were analyzed using t-ratio. The level of significance chosen was 0.05. Mean of individual group is 102.022 and the standard deviation is 11.935 and on another hand mean of the team group is 97.9 and a standard deviation is 11.463. t- Value obtained is 1.368 which was insignificant of the tabulated value needed for significance at.05 level of confidence is 2.042.