Depression among sportspersons in respect of their gender and socio-economic status

The present study was an attempt to find out the difference in level of depression among sportspersons having high and low level of socio-economic status. A number of 300 sportspersons (150 male + 150 female) among the three Universities of Haryana were taken as a sample on the basis of purposive sampling method. The Depression Scale by Dr. Shamim Karim and Dr. Rama Tiwari and Socio-Economic Status Scale Questionnaire (SESSQ) by Kalia and Sahoo were used to collect the data. Keeping in view the objectives of the study, the data so collected was statistically analysed by using Mean, Standard Deviation and ‘t’ test techniques. The findings of the study were: (i) Female university sportspersons are more depressed in comparison to male university sportspersons; (ii) Female university sportspersons having low socio-economic status are more depressed in comparison to male university sportspersons having low socio-economic status; (iii) Female university sportspersons having high socio-economic status are more depressed in comparison to male university sportspersons having high socio-economic status.