Psychological and Physiological Characteristics of Handball Players

About Book: This Book is based on the research study conducted with an objective to compare District, State and National level Handball Players of India by their selected Psychological and Physiological variables. The Psychological Variables namely Anxiety, Aggression, Self Concept, Morality, and Physiological Variables namely Anaerobic Power, Vital Capacity, Resting Heart Rate, Resting Respiratory Rate, Total Body Fat Percentage, Lean Body Weight, Positive Breath Holding Capacity, Negative Breath Holding Capacity were selected as variables of the study. The static group comparison design was used for the study. Three groups were made as District Level, State Level and National Level, comprising of 30 subjects each. To characterize the Handball players to their standard human performance measures by Psychological and Physiological variables, Descriptive Statistics were used. To compare the selected Psychological and Physiological variables among Handball Players belonging to three levels of participation (District, State and National), one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used and the level of significance was set of 0.05 level.