Abstract

The aim of the study was to compare self esteem between Assam Police trainees and sports persons. The researchers selected total 50 (fifty) subject’s i.e. N1=25 Assam Police (AP) trainees from 2nd AP Battalion Camp, Makum, Tinsukia, Assam, India and N2=25 sports person from Dibrugarh University Post Graduate team participated different Inter-college level Tournament and between the 19-22 years age. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the subjects. To collect the data, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale was used. To determine the differences between the groups the Independent t-test was applied and the level of significance was kept at 0.05confidence. The result showed that statistically there was significant difference between the groups (t0.05 (48) = 3.55 > 1.677).

Keywords

Self Esteem, Assam Police Trainees, Sports person,

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