Comparison Study for Locus of Control to the Jordanian Youth Players and Arab Women League Football Players

Comparison Study for Locus of Control to the Jordanian Youth Players and Arab Women League Football Players

Mervat Deeb, Jafar AL Arjan, & Ghazi El-Kailani

dr_mervat_deeb2005@yahoo.com

Received : 27-10-2008 , Accepted : 26-05-2009

Language: Arabic

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the locus of control with respect to its Internal and External parts for the Jordanian male players and the Arabic league female players of football, the differences of the locus of control for the participating Arabic leagues female players in Amman club championship of football for females for the year (2004) according to the final order of the teams in the championship, and the relation between the locus of control, the years of practice and how often is the weekly training according to the gender variable. The study sample consisted of (54) female player, they were selected randomly from the total number of Arabic league female players who participated in Amman club championship for the year 2004, it also consisted of (82) Jordanian male players who were chosen randomly from the best teams of football in Jordan. The used questionnaire of locus of control was prepared by (Salem, 1985). The data was statistically analyzed by using Independent Samples “t” Test and Pearson correlation. The results indicated that there are indicating statistic differences at level (P ≤ 0.05) in the Internal and External locus of control according to the gender variable and for the benefit of the male players who excelled at the internal locus of control in attribution to the results. It also indicated the excellence of the female players at the Internal locus of control a relationship between the achieving level and the Internal locus of control for the Arabic league female players a positive relationship between the times of training per week, the experience, and the direction toward the Internal locus of control, and a negative relationship between the External locus of control and the times of training per week and the experience. The researchers recommended the necessity of doing deeper studies related to the causal attribution for winning and losing in football game according to the gender variable and to the search in the ability that Arabic girl practice of football forms psychological pressure on her stronger than that on male.

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