Page No.151-157
Santhosh A. M., Rajitha Menon. A.and Jayan.C
Padmashree Group of Institutions, Bangalore Calicut University, Calicut.
Research, design, implementation, and efficacy testing of newer psychological
interventions have been not only a great passion of psychologists but also an
inevitable part and parcel of the developmental process of psychology as a
scientific discipline. The present experimentation exemplifies such an effort
with the objective of testing the efficacy of a newly developed intervention strategy,
which is founded on theatre techniques, to control negative attitude towards
sport injury being one of the major debilitating factors of sport performance. The
experiment was conducted on group of 16 sport persons; 8 subjects in
experimental group and 8 subjects in control group. The intervention consisted
of 7 sessions, which is based on a module designed by the experimenter. ttest was used to estimate the significance of mean difference between the
experimental and control groups before and after treatment. The results of the
experiment showed that the newly developed intervention is effective in controlling
negative attitude towards sport injury. This paper discusses the rationale and
theoretical basis of employing a theatre-based intervention in sport setting.