European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

The present study has been conducted on 160 players with an aim to find out the difference in aggression between Handball (n=80) and Basketball (n=80) players of Himachal Pradesh University. Sample for present study were taken from the Himachal Pradesh University inter college championship organized by the directorate of physical education and youth programme Himachal Pradesh University Shimla. The inter college Handball championship was held in Govt. college Arki and Basketball championship was held at MCM DAV college Kangra. Each player was tested for aggression measurements of Assault, Indirect Aggression, Irritability, Negativism, Resentment, Suspicion, Verbal Aggression, and Guilt form of aggression of Handball and Basketball players. To analyse the difference in aggression between two groups of Handball and Basketball players were determined through‘t’ test. From the findings, it has been found that there exists significant difference in only Negativism form of aggression between Handball and Basketball players of Himachal Pradesh University. However there exist no significant difference in assault, indirect aggression, irritability, resentment, suspicion, verbal aggression and guilt form of aggression between Handball and Basketball players of Himachal Pradesh University.