A Comparative Evaluation of Mood States of National Level Athletes

Author(s)	Dr. Bhoj Ram Rawte
Country	India
Abstract	The present study analysed the mood states of national level athletes. To Conduct the study 50 interuniversity/national level athletes were selected from team and individual sports namely cricket, badminton, volleyball, basketball, table tennis and soccer through purposive sampling. For this study, 50 intercollegiate athletes were also selected from team and individual sports namely cricket, badminton, volleyball, basketball, table tennis and soccer through purposive sampling. The age range of the selected athletes was 18 to 25 years. To assess mood states of selected athletes, POMS prepared by Grooves and Prapavessis (1992) was used. It was found that mood disturbance in intercollegiate level athletes was found to be significantly on higher magnitude as compared to national level athletes. It was concluded that intercollegiate athletes lacked strategies to cope with stress and emotional demands of the sport as effectively as national level athletes, thereby intercollegiate athletes exhibiting more magnitude of mood disturbance as compared to national level athletes.
Keywords	mood states, national, intercollegiate athletes
Field	Sociology > Sports
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-19

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