Comparison of Mental Toughness Between Players of Team Games and Individual Games

The purpose of the study was to examine the mental toughness of players of team games and individual games. For the said objective 30 players from team games and 30 players from individual games of Indian School Muscat, Oman, who have participated at CBSE Nationals, were randomly selected to serve as subjects. For the collection of data Mental Toughness Questionnaire prepared by Allen Goldberg was administered. The questionnaire was comprised of 60 statements based on handling pressure (20 questions), concentration (17 questions), mental rebounding (14 questions) and winning attitude (9 questions). Each statement has two possible responses i.e. true or false. For the analysis of data, collected by administering the questionnaire to all the subjects, t-test was employed at 0.05 level of significance.

The result of the study concluded that there was statistically significant difference in mental toughness between the players of team games and individual games of Indian school Muscat, Oman. This clearly depicts that the mean mental toughness of the players of team games is significantly higher than the mean mental toughness of the players of individual games.