Comparative study on social support among various sports of male and female athletes

The purpose of the study is to measure the social support among the three format of sports and also to see which factor is dominating in the support. In this study 60 male and female were taken from various types of sports and their age group was 18–23 years. The statistical tool used in the study was Two way ANNOVA and it is been found that there is no significant difference among male and female social support but the significant difference is been found in the family group support comparing to other and friend group and combative sports have significant difference comparing to indigenous games. Similarly no significant difference found in combative sports and water sports at 0.05 level.