A Comparative Study on Identification of Social Precursurs Affecting Women Participation in Sports Between Rural and Urban Area of Western Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

The intention of the study was to evaluate social precursors namely socio-economic newlinestatus, cast, religion and sibilings affecting women participation in sports among rural newlineand urban areas. For attaining this point of the study, four hundred women students newlinepursuing their graduate and postgraduate coursesfrom the various university and newlinecolleges located in Bulandshahr, Muradabad, Meerut and Ghaziabad Districts at newlineWestern Uttar Pradesh were selected randomly. The selected subjects for the study newlinewere those who did not participate in sports and games. Among them two hundred newlinerural and two hundred urban students were chosen. The age of the participants varied newlineamid 18 to 25 years. The subsequent variables such as socioeconomic status, caste, newlinereligion and siblings were selected as criterion variables. The data was collected from the subjects connected with chosen criterion changeable were assessed by deploying consistent questionnaire and they were statistically scrutinized through employing autonomous t ratio to know the dissimilarity between rural and urban area students on chosen criterion variables newlineindependently for each variable. In every case, the .05 level of confidence was fixed to newlinetest the point of significance which was regarded as an appropriate. The percentage newlinescores were also computed newline newline