A Comparative Study of Leadership Qualities between Post Graduate Physical Education and General Education Students

The present study was conducted to determine the leadership qualities between post graduate physical education and general education student. Total 80 students 40 General Education and 40 Physical Education post graduate students of Dibrugarh University of Assam and aged 21 to 28 years were selected as the subjects. For collection of the date Collaborative Leadership Self Assessment Questionnaire (constructed by Robert Wood Jonson) having six factor such as Assessing the Environment (AE), Creating Clarity, Visioning and Mobilizing (CCVM), Building Trust (BT), Sharing Power and Influence (SPI), Developing People (DP) and Self Reflection (SR) was used and responses were recorded numerically in the 4 point scale such as seldom, sometime, often and almost always. The collected data were analyzed statistically through T-test and the level of significant was observed at 0.05 level of confidence. On the basis of statistical findings it was conclude that there were significant difference in leadership quality between Physical Education and General Education post graduate students (t0.05 (78) = 2.255greater than 1.960) and the Physical Education students have better leadership quality than the general education students (189.65greater than177.725). It was also concluded that there were significant differences in the various factors of Collaborative Leadership quality respectively as t0.05 (78) = 2.765 (AE), 2.125 (CCVM), 5.312 (BT), 3.28, (SPI) 2.38 (DP) greater than 1.960 and insignificant difference was observed in self reflection t0.05 (78) = 1.122 less than 1.960. It was also further concluded that the Physical education students were superior in all the six factor of leadership quality than the general education students.