Vol. 5, Issue 1, Part A (2023)

The purpose of the study was to compare the achievement motivation of zonal and national level male Volleyball players whose ages ranged from 15 to 17 years. The subjects for the study were 15 zonal and 15 national level male Volleyball players studying in different schools of Delhi. The zonal level athletes had represented their school only in the zonal level tournament whereas the national level Volleyball players had represented Delhi state in the national tournament organized by the School Games federation of India. The significance of mean difference between the pre test and post test scores each of the criterion variables among the groups were analyzed by using the ‘t’- ratio, the level of significant was 0.05. The analysis of data clearly shows that national level male Volleyball players are significantly superior to that of zonal level male Volleyball players in achievement motivation at 0.05 level of confidence.