A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AGGRESSION AMONG MALE AND FEMALE ATHLETES AND ITS IMPACT ON SPORTS PERFORMANCE IN VOLLEYBALL AT COLLEGE LEVEL

Abstract

Human aggression has a significant effect in sports performance. This study was focuses on a comparative analysis of aggression among male and female athletes and its impact on sports performance in volleyball at college level. This study examines the influence of physical aggression, emotional aggression, anger, and hostility of volleyball on sports performance. A sample of 200 male and female players their age 15 to 21 years were selected from the colleges of district Kasur through Stratified sampling technique. Descriptive survey research methods with cross sectional approach were adopted for the study in hand. Two types of questionnaire were used to data collection to measure aggression level and sports performance level. To compare the aggression between male and female athletes’’ test was applied as a statistical tool, the level of significance was set as 0.05. The findings of the present study demonstrated that there was no significant difference in aggression among male and female athletes. Based on the interpretation, the t-value for aggression is 4.76, and the p-value is 0.744. Since the p-value is also greater than 0.05, there is no significant difference in aggression scores between male and female athletes.

Keywords: Aggression, Sports performance, College level, volleyball, Gender differences.