A comparative study of self esteem of all India inter university taekwondo players

A study with the objectives to assess and compare the self-esteem of All India Inter university Taekwondo players (men and women) prior to the scheduled competition was conducted. The study was delimited to All India Inter University Taekwondo men and women Players (2016–17) age ranging 17–28 years. Forty women and forty men players of All India Interuniversity Taekwondo Tournament were selected for the study. Subjects were from undergraduate and post graduate courses. The age of the participants ranged between 17–28 years. Rosenberg's Self-esteem scale (1965) developed by Dr. Morris Rosenberg was used to collect the data. The collected data was subjected to the Mean, S.D, and ‘t’ ratio computation. The level of significance was chosen at 0.05 in order to check the significance. The findings of the study shows that the females have greater mean values as compared to their counterparts which reflects that women have higher self esteem as compared to men.