APPRAISAL OF TASK AND EGO ORIENTATION AMONG INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM SPORTSPERSONS

The present study was conducted to assess the task and ego orientation amo ng selected individual and team sportspersons. Total one hundred and fifty (N=150) male sportspersons were selected which includes seventy five (n=75) individual sportspersons selected from judo(n=25),wrestling(n=25) ,boxing (n=25) and seventy five (n=75) team sportspersons selected from basketball(n=25),handball (n=25),volleyball (n=25) who had participated in the inter - college competitions from various colleges were randomly selected to act as subjects. The age of subjects were ranged between 19 to 28 ye ars. The one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied to find out the significant differences among individual sportspersons and team sportspersons. Where ‘F’ ratio was found significant, Scheffe’s post - hoc test was applied to see the degree and direct ion of differences among individual and team sportspersons. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The results of One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) among individual sportspersons (judo, wrestling and boxing) with regard to task orientation were foun d statistically significant (P<0.05) as the obtained P values (sig.) .021 were found lower than 0.05 level of confidence whereas, the results with regard to the ego orientation among individual sportspersons (judo, wrestling and boxing) were found statis tically insignificant (P>0.05) as the obtained P values (sig.).752 were found higher than 0.05 level of confidence . However, the findings with regard to the task and ego orientation revealed statistically insignificant differences (P>0.05) among team spo rtspersons (basketball, handball and volleyball) as the obtained P values (sig.).157 and .094 respectively were found higher than 0.05 level of confidence