The correlation between sports and self-esteem, control source and academic progress of sportsperson and non-sportsperson school girls

Pages: 221-224
Abdolmajid Bahreinian (Department of Psychology Beheshti Uneversity, Tehran, Iran)
Maryam Yavari Kermani (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India)
Hakimeh Aghaei (Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India)

This study investigates correlation between sports and self-esteem, control source and academic progress of sportsperson and non- sportsperson school girls in groups of 35, 1. Individual sports person 2. Team member sportsperson 3. Non-sportsperson. The instrument for assessment of self-esteem was Cooper Smiths’ statement of self-esteem and for assessment of internal and external control source, Rater’s statement of control source was used. The research is of causative comparative type. For data analysis, descriptive statistics including mean, standard deviation, and inferential statistics including t-test for comparing the mean score of the two groups and correlation coefficient of Pearson was used for determining the correlation of the variables, and X2 Test was used to investigate the correlation between parents’ level of education and employment status, and tendency of children to sport. It showed that sportsperson had a better self-esteem, control source, and academic progress as compared to non-sportsperson.