Relationship among Hardiness Mental Toughness and Pain Tolerance at Different Level of Track and Field Athletes

Abstract

newlineThe present study was done to study the relationship among hardiness, mental newlinetoughness and pain tolerance at different level of training intensities (low, medium newlineand high) of track and field athletes. A descriptive research based on purposive newlinesampling was done on advance level athletes (training age was 5 years or more newlinethan 5) which included 60 male participants, who were active participant and were newlineundergoing a training programme at the time of research in Delhi, India. newlineHardiness scale developed by Kobasa (1985), mental toughness questionnaire newlinedeveloped by Tiwari et al (2006) and pain tolerance scale for athletes (PTS-A) a newlineself-developed reliable tool as the Cronbach s alpha value for internal consistency newlinecomes out to be 0.67 was used. Mean, Standard Deviation, Pearson Correlation newlineAnalysis and One-way ANOVA was analysed. The level of significance was set at newlineplt0.05. The pearson correlation revealed that there is no significant difference newlinebetween hardiness and pain tolerance at low (r = 0.114), medium (r = 0.172), high newline(r = 0.132) training intensities and mental toughness and pain tolerance low (r = newline0.018), medium (r = 0.030), high (r = 0.50) training intensities of track and field newlineathletes. But, ANOVA showed significant difference in different training intensities newlinei.e low, medium and high intensity as obtained F = 69.83 at p gt 0.01. Therefore, newlinelevel difference due to different intensities influence pain tolerance among athletes. newlineThe post-hoc test through LSD revealed the mean score difference in pain newlinetolerance between low and high training intensity is 5.86, high and medium is 0.60, newlinelow and medium is 5.26. Taking together, our finding suggests that hardiness and newlinemental toughness helps an individual to fight his inability of bearing pain at a level newlinewhich he might have never faced. newline newline