Post-Pandemic Athlete’s Mental Health Status: A Comparative Study
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the Aim of Study the study was conduct to investigate the psychological effect of Post covid-19 pandemic among the individual and team sports players.
Methodology: for the present study a total of 100 athletes (50 athletes, from Individual and 50 athletes from team sports) were selected. The athletes from sports disciplines are Team sports (Football, Hockey, handball, Cricket and Basketball) and Individual sports (Badminton, swimming, Diving, Cycling, Table Tennis, Weightlifting and Tennis with age ranging from 17-24 years. All subjects were selected at LNIPE, Gwalior, M.P., and LNIPE-NERC, Guwahati (Assam). Simple random sampling method was used to draw the sample of the study.
Results: the results obtained from individual and team sports player on DASS revealed that anxiety, depression and stress were higher in individual sports rather than the team sport. The significant differences were found among the individual and team sports athletes in depression, anxiety and stress. It is possible to draw the conclusion that individual gamers had higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression than did team players. The reason may the team cohesiveness among the individual sports athletes may be lesser than the team sports athletes.
Conclusions: the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light significant mental health challenges faced by athletes in both individual and team sports. While the nature of these challenges varied, the overall impact on mental well-being was profound.
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