A Comparative Study of Aggression Between Team Sports and Individual Sports

Abstract

The term ‘psychology’, literally means the science of the soul. (Psyche—soul; logos -science). Formerly, psychology was a part of metaphysics, and dealt with the nature, origin, and destiny of the soul. It was called rational psychology. But modern psychology is empirical, and does not deal with the problems relating to the soul. It deals with mental process apart from the soul or mental substance. It is the science of experience and behaviour, which tells us how the mind works and behaves. It can predict the behaviour of an individual, and control it to a certain extent by putting him under proper conditions. It seeks to discover the laws of mind. The current study was investigate the aggression between team sports and individual sports. The present study was consisted of 140 students randomly chosen as the subjects of the study. The Questionnaire was used as a tool to collect data on psychological variables for this investigation assessed by Smith. To compare the aggression between team and individual sports ‘t’ test was applied as a statistical tool, the level of significance was set as 0.05. The findings of the present study demonstrated that there was a significant difference in aggression among team sports and individual sports. Based on the interpretation, a researcher concludes that college level team sports players were found more aggressive than the college level players of individual sports.