The Role of Self Confidence on Participation in Sports Tournament

The purpose behind this investigation is to see whether the self confidence of understudies is influence by sports interest, for this investigation Purposive randomized sampling technique was employed to select the participants. Initially sample of 160 subjects was taken from the population in which 80 subjects were sports students another 80 subjects were non sports students.Self Confidence of the students was determined with the help of score obtained by the Self Confidence Inventory (SCI–GR) constructed by Rekha Gupta. (Agnihotri), mean, S.D. and ‘t’ test was applied to find out the difference between groups. The result obtained through the study showed sports students exhibit higher self confidencethan non sports students. Sports participation increases self confidence of students.