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Gulzar Ahmad Rathar Jigmat Dachen
Bhagwant University, Ajmer, Rajasthan University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K
The main purpose of the present study was to compare the personality factors between
the sportspersons of the contact and non-contact sports. Big five personality inventory
was employed among the sportsperson selecting randomly from colleges of Ganderbal
Kashmir region. The size of sample under study was 70, in which 26 were from contact
sports (football, hockey, kabaddi, Basketball, Handball and Rugby) and 44 were from
non-contact sports (Cricket, volleyball, badminton, baseball, ball badminton and shooting
ball). The groups were compared on different factors of personality i.e, extroversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness. The results show almost
same personality characteristics exist between the sportspersons of contact and noncontact sports, since calculated ‘t’ values of 0.76 (Extraversion),0.31(Agreeableness)
, 1.05 (Conscientiousness), 0.05(Neuroticism) and 1.1(Openness) for five personality
factors were not found statistically significant (P≤0.05
.