Dissertation

CORRELATION BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLE

AND PHYSIOLOGICAL VARIABLE AMONG FOOTBALL
PLAYERS

By
LEITANTHEM SUSHILKUMAR SINGH
(A3014920043)

Supervisor

DR. MOIRANGTHEM EBHION SINGH

(Assistant Professor,ASPESS)

A Dissertation Submitted To

Amity School of Physical Education And Sports Sciences

Amity University, Noida, U.P
Sector 125, Noida – 201303 (India)

2022
 WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT

WPR Number: 01(ONE)

Enrollment Number: A3014920043
Program: M.P.Ed IV Semester
Organisation: Amity School of Physical Education & Sports Sciences
Student Name: Leitanthem Sushilkumar Singh
Faculty Guide’s Name: Dr. Moirangthem Ebhion Singh
Co-Guide’s Name: L.Anandkumar Singh
Project Title: Correlation between psychological variable and physiological variable among
football players

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 APPENDIX

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Sport is a type of physical activity with a lot of competitions among athletes and
individuals. It can also be a part of a fun activity or also be a professional career.
There is no age limit, abilities, and bias in sports.

The sport looks at each individual in an equal manner. It involves everyone

playing, healthy lifestyle. It allows the individuals who are looking forward to their
livelihood. In another word, sport is for all, which means sport can be participated by
every individual. It is bounded by rules and regulations according to the respective
games & sports or organization. It teaches the individual to respect everyone. There
are lots of learning things from sports such as self-confidence, discipline, respect,
punctuality, etc.

The sport competition events are organized according to gender, age, and weight.
In every sport’s event, participants are divided into groups to show their performance
to the category. There are many officials and volunteers to organize a beautiful sports
competition. Participants may misuse the drug to enhance performance through
medicines or sports drink items. But sportspeople may use legal drugs, which is
allowed by the competition committee. Those of the participants who misuse the drug
may be checked by the committee before and after the competition. Sport allows the
youth to have a positive attitude and role models. Sports reduce the crime report. It
helps the people of the community to bring happiness, unity, togetherness among
them. It prevents the youths from drugs, avoids negative mindsets. Sport brings the
pride of the country, state, and community of their people and family.

In today’s modern world, football is one of the most popular games in the world.
Football is a game where two teams are playing with 11 players of each team. It
involves all the body parts except hands and arms using hand is allowed only the
goalkeeper in a particular area (penalty area). The team who scores more will be the
winner of the match, if any of the team doesn’t score then it is known as a draw or tie.
It is played in a rectangular field with natural grass or artificial grass which is
permitted by FIFA or the organization of the particular tournament.

Football is played in every corner of the world. It can be played as fun or

recreational games and also as a profession. It has its own laws of the game which are
approved by the International Football Committee. The world’s governing body is
Federation Internationale de Football Association. As we all can see on the television
that football is a fast-paced game. From this game, there are many players who earn
money for their survival. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, David
Beckham, etc. are some of the players who got sponsor from the companies namely
Nike, Adidas, etc. for their outstanding performance.
 In football, players need to have strong mentally and physically fit. In few
seconds, they need to make decisions, good vision, an accurate calculation to kick or
pass a ball to the teammate. They need to prepare mentally to push themselves in
tough games and strong opponents. As we can recall from the world cup 2018 held in
Russia, the match which is played between South Korea and Germany. South Korean
team came up with full preparation mentally and physically to face their tough
opponent Germany. As their preparation was good and they get a good result, the
South Korean team defeated the German team (winner of the 2014 world cup) by 2-1.
Players must prepare at training sessions, in and out of the field which are going to
face in the match to come. They need to have good ball control along with all these are
the opportunities to grow up and build a strong team with mental and physical
preparation. Football can make you happy and enjoyable to play or watch a match in
the stadium with full spectators and fans, techniques and tactics which are instructed
by the trainers or coach.

Even the team that loses a match shouldn’t give up, they need to analyze all the
mistakes which were made in the particular match or even the players get injured.

Anxiety is a state of natural response that feels unpleasant in our body. Anxiety
comes in the individual's thoughts according to their different situations. It occurs
when we do or try new things that are different from the previous task. If we recall
anxiety from the previous task, it is frequently happening in our today’s lifestyle or in
any tough competition. We can compare a task from a football match that a player
takes a penalty during the match and takes a penalty in the shoot-out. We have noticed
that the player who is taking a penalty kick during the match will have less
nervousness than the player who takes a penalty in the shoot-out. The player who
takes the penalty in the shoot-out may have more stress, nervousness, tension, less
confidence, increased heart-beat.

Anxiety can bring you in the way with a lot of negative either positive
thoughts. We can relate anxiety with games & sports of today’s world. As a supporter
or fans of any particular sports who attend at the stadium to watch the performance of
the player that they choose, if the particular player doesn’t get a good result or doesn’t
expose with high performance then they can be unstable, feel pressure, and increase
the stress level.

Also not only the psychological part, the physiology helps the players to give
best performance in the match or competition. Both the psychology and physiology
have to be equivalent do better in the game and control. The anxiety level increases
will affect the game and individual performance during the competition. So,
physiologically the athlete should be strong along with mentally tough. Physiological
variables are well maintain trained in the training session.

Hence, my study will find out the correlation between the psychological
variable and physiological variable among football players.
 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The present study is to see the correlation between psychological variable and physiological
variable among the football players.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The objectives of the study will be finding the co-relation between psychological variable and
physiological variable among football players.

DELIMITATIONS

The study will be delimited in the following aspects

1. The investigator proposed to select 11 football players from Social Welfare Club, Keirak,
Manipur.

2. The age of the selected subject will be range in between 17-25 years.

3. All the subjects will be the residents in the Keirak community.

4. The study will be delimited to the following psychological variable (Anxiety - State and
Trait anxiety) and physiological variable ( Pulse rate)

5. The selected subjects will be in single group consisting of 11 football players.

LIMITATIONS

1. Any bias that might exist due to negative responses from subjects may be considered as a
limitation of the study.

2. Any malpractice in the date of birth and any player found to be younger than the specified
age range will be another limitation of the study.

3. The experience of the study will be considered as another limitation of the study.

HYPOTHESIS

On the basis of literatures and own understanding. It is hypothesized that:

1. There will be no significant relation between psychological variable and physiological

variable among football players.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

a) The results of this study will reveal the co-relation between the psychological variable
and physiological variable among the football players.
b) The results of this study will reveal the effect of physiological variable on the
performance of the football players.

c) This study will be useful for the physical trainers and coaches as it helps to know the
effect of anxiety among football players.

d) The finding of this study will add to the existing body of knowledge in the area of
sports psychology and games and sports.
CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

SELECTION OF THE SUBJECTS

For the purpose of the study the investigator proposed to select only 11 football players as
subject from Social Welfare Club, Keirak, Manipur. The selected subject’s age group will be
range from 17-25 years.

SAMPLING TECHNIQUES

The purposive sampling technique will be used to select the subjects in the present study.

SELECTION OF VARIABLES

The following variables are selected:-

SL.NO. TEST/INSTRUMENT
UNITS
VARIABLES

1. PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE-TRAIT ANXIETY SCORE

INVENTORY
VARIABLES

(ANXIETY)

2. PHYSIOLOGICAL PULSE RATE

VARIABLE BEATSPER
MINUTE

STATISTICS TECHNIQUE

Co-relations technique will be applied through IBM SPSS.

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INTERNET SOURCES

State-trait anxiety inventory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-Trait_Anxiety_Inventory (04-01-2022)

PULSE RATE

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/accidents-first-aid-and-treatments/how-do-i-
check-my-pulse (05-01-2022)

https://www.mayoclinic.org/how-to-take-pulse/art-20482581 (07-01-2022)

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