COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING BETWEEN COLLAGE ATHLETES AND NON ATHLETES

Psychological well-being consists of positive relationships with others, personal mastery, autonomy, a feeling of purpose and meaning in life, and personal growth and development. Psychological well-being is attained by achieving a state of balance affected by both challenging and rewarding life events. During the present study, five Hundred subjects were selected for the collection of statistics which consists of 250 subjects of college athletes and 250 subjects of non athletes of Jammu and Kashmir. Simple random sampling method was employed for the selection of subjects. During the present study it was found the Mean of psychological well being of athlete (Mean= 174.28) is greater than the mean of non-athlete (Mean=12984). The results are interpreted as higher the score, better the psychology. After analyzing the data using t-test, the tabulated‘t’ value is found 28.55 (p-value=6.3E-107), which is greater than the critical value i.e., 1.964 in 0.05 level of significance at df=498.