Comparative Study Of Achievement Motivation Between Male And Female Sport Students

The present study has been designed to investigate the achievement motivation of male and female players. It is inconsistently reported that despite equal cognitive ability, and academic environment male and female Achievement is different. Achievement motivation of the college students is the matter of great concern in the 21st century Indian society. Unless the students have high level of achievement motivation it will be difficult on the part of the society to develop and to be at par with other developed society. Therefore right from the lower level up to the higher level there should be proper emphasis on the development of the desire to attain excellence in all walks of life. As such the present study is an attempt to focus the achievement motivation of the male and female players in Ahmednagar with reference to gender. In several methodological steps, the present study examined the level of achievement motivation, differences in achievement motivation across gender, academic streams and to find out the significant differences in achievement motivation of male and female players. For accomplish the study total 120 (60 male players and 60 female players) players were randomly selected as sample. All samples were selected from Ahmednagar. The age of the subjects was ranged from 16-21 years. Descriptive method of research was employed and data was collected through Deo-Mohan achievement motivation scale. Mean, Std. D, t-test and ANOVA was done through SPSS 21 to determine the achievement motivation of players. Results reported that. For measure the achievement motivation Dr. M.C. Kamlesh questionnaire was used. The obtained data were analysed by applying t test in order. The level of significance was set at 0.05. We find out that male players and female players are not significantly different at achievement motivation