A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF MALE HOCKEY PLAYERS

Abstract

The aim of this study was to find out the difference in socio-economics status between state, national and international hockey players of Punjab. One hundred fifty male hockey players (50 international + 50 national + 50 state level) were randomly selected from the Punjab state. A questionnaire was prepared to access the socio-economic status among the selected male hockey players of various levels. Descriptive statistics and one-way analysis of variance test (ANOVA) was employed by ‘SPSS Version-23’. The results showed that there was a significant difference in socio-economics status between state, national and international hockey players of Punjab.