AUTHOR(S): Koppad Shivappa Govindappa and Dr. AG Bujurke

ABSTRACT:
The purpose of the study was designed to find out the occupational stress in relation to self esteem of sports and non-sports personnel. For the purpose of the study a sample of sixty (30 Sports Person and 30 Non-sports Person) subjects working in southern Railways who have more occupational stress were randomly selected from Karnataka state. The age group of the selected samples was between 25 to 32 years. The self-esteem was measured through questionnaire of Hudson (1993)^[2]. The administered questionnaire was quantified for obtaining the scores as per the instructions/ guidelines. The independent ‘t’ test was applied as the statistical tool to compare the means and the level of significance was set at 0.05. The findings of the study showed that self-esteem level was found significant higher among sports person (mean 77.62) as compared to non-sports person (mean 62.86) as the ‘t’ value obtained was 10.02 at p.>0.05. The result of the study reveals that there may be significant difference between sports and non sports personal on self-esteem.

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