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A Comparison of Causal Attribution between Open Skill and Close Skill Women Sports Persons from Various Stadiums and Clubs of Delhi

Author Affiliations

  • 1Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, INDIA

Res. J. of Physical Education Sci., Volume 2, Issue (11), Pages 1-4, November,23 (2014)

Abstract

It was aimed to study the causal attribution between open skill and close skill of women sports persons from various stadiums and clubs of Delhi. The study was confined to 100 females, randomly selected (50 open skill + 50 closed) from various venues from South West Delhi. The study was also confined to the losing teams or losers in the Zonal Tournaments. The variable selected for the study was casual Attribution and for the collection of the data on the selected variable Attribution questionnaire for losers developed by Roberts and Kenvis was used. The questionnaire consisted of 4 questions for the variables namely ability, lack of effort, task difficulty and luck. For the analysis of the collected data descriptive statistics was employed followed by‘t’ test. The results revealed that the mean value for open skill games on the variables ability, effort, task difficulty and luck was found to be 6.00, 3.1, 6.35 and 5.1 respectively, whereas for closed skill was found to be 4.2, 3.4, 5.5 and 3 respectively. Also the group mean for open skill and closed skill games was 5.13 and 4.03, with a standard deviation of 2.31 and 2.17 respectively. Whereas a significant difference was found on the ability factor as the value was found to be 2.44 against the tabulated value 2.02 at 0.05 level of significance. On the variable of luck no significant difference was found as the calculated value was found to be -.507 against the tabulated value 2.02, also no significant difference was found between open and closed skill players on task difficulty dimension as the value was -.50 and finally a significant difference was found on effort variable as the calculated value was 3.649 against 2.02 tabulated value. When compared on the internal attribution variables (ability and effort) as a whole a significant difference was obtained with a value of 4.13 whereas no significant difference was found on external attribution variables (luck and task difficulty) with a value of 0.418.

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