Comparison of leadership behavior psychological characteristics male and female wrestling players in mini Olympic state level competition Chhattisgarh.

The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the leadership preferences for the set of five dimensions of leader behavior i.e. training and instruction, democratic behavior, autocratic behavior, social support and positive feedback of state level and female wrestler players. Two hundred sixty four (Males=140, females =124) state level wrestler players representing their respective university in state competitions and who volunteered their participate in this study, were selected to serve as subjects for this study. The subjects were in age group of 18 to 23 years. The subjects were selected from among the male and female Wrestler players taken part in State competitions. The leadership scale for sports development was used to measure the preferred leader behavior of State level male and female Wrestler players on five dimension of leader behavior i.e. training and instruction, democratic behavior, autocratic behavior, social support and positive feedback. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied to see the significance of difference between means of male Wrestler players on various dimensions of preferred leadership behavior which resulted significant f-ratio (20.934). further application of Scheffe?s test of post-hoc comparisons indicated that State level male Wrestler players of proffered their coaches more of training and instruction (4.352) followed by positive feedback (4.243), social support (3.813), democratic behavior (3.057), and autocratic behavior (3.643). as the paired mean difference between training and instruction – social support (.439) followed by positive feedback (.109), autocratic behavior (1.295) and democratic behavior (.709) : social support – positive feedback (.430) followed by autocratic behavior (.756), democratic behavior (.070) : positive feedback – autocratic behavior (.186) followed by democratic behavior (.600) and autocratic behavior – democratic behavior (.586) were higher than C.I. In case of female Wrestler players, ANOVA was also applied to see the difference between means of five dimensions of preferred leadership which resulted significant f-ration (112.603). the applications of Scheffe?s rest of posthoc comparison indicated that State level female players of cross country also preferred in greater amount o training and instruction (4.441) followed by positive feedback (4.251),social support(3.823), democratic behavior (3.544), and autocratic behavior (2.857). as the paired mean difference between training and instruction – social support (.598) followed by positive feedback (.191), autocratic behavior (1.584) and democratic behavior (.898) : social support – positive feedback (.427) followed by autocratic behavior (.966), democratic behavior (.270) : positive feedback – autocratic behavior (.393) followed by democratic behavior (.707) and autocratic behavior – democratic behavior (.686) were higher than C.I. To find out the significance of difference between means scores of preferences on leader behavior dimension of male and female Wrestler players, t-ratio was computed. The State level male and female Wrestler players expressed significantly similar preferences on democratic behavior (1.10), autocratic behavior (1.877), social support (.154) and positive feedback (.111) but the State level male and female Wrestler players were significant difference in training and instruction (2.00)