TITLE:
Superstitions Behavior and Decision Making in Collegiate Athletes: An Illogical Phenomenon
AUTHORS:
Baljinder Singh Bal, Davinder Singh, Kulroop Kaur Badwal, Gurmej Singh Dhaliwal
KEYWORDS:
Superstitious; Behavior; Decision Making
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Physical Education,
Vol.4 No.1,
February
13,
2014
ABSTRACT: This study examined
the superstitious
behavior and decision making among individual, dual and team sport groups. To obtain required data, the investigators had
selected Ninety (N = 90) male
intercollege level athletes of 19 to 25 years of age to act as subjects. They
were divided into three groups; Thirty (n1 = 30)
Individual Sports, Thirty (n2 = 30)
Dual Sports and Thirty (n3 = 30)
Team Sports athletes of various games and sport. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the subjects. All
the subjects, after having been informed about the objective and protocol of
the study, gave their consent and volunteered to participate in this study. To
measure the level of superstitions behaviors of the subjects, the superstitions beliefs and behaviour scale
constructed by Buhramann et al. (2004)
was administered and to measure
the level of decision making by applying decision making questionnaire prepared
by French et al. (1993). One way
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed to find out the intra-group differences. To test the hypothesis, the level
of significance was set at .05. The results revealed significant
intra-group differences among individual, dual and team sports on the variable
superstitious behavior and decision making. It is concluded that the individual sport group has low
superstitious belief and better decision making level as compared to their
counterpart dual and team sport.