AUTHOR(S): Ashutosh

ABSTRACT:
The purpose of the study was to know the relationship between anthropometric variables of upper limb to the performance of female hockey player of collegiate level. For achieving the purpose of the study total forty female (n = 40) hockey players were selected as samples from various colleges of Punjabi University, Patiala. All the selected subjects were hockey players of college level. The age of subjects ranged between 17 to 25 years. Various anthropometric measurements were taken on the right side of all the subjects by using the standard technique of Heath and Carter (1967) method. After the collection of relevant data, it was processed and analyzed with descriptive statistics. To find out the relationship between anthropometric variables of upper limb to the performance of hockey players of collegiate level, the data was analysed by applying, multiple correlation and regression analysis with the help of statistical package of SPSS. To test the hypothesis the significance level was set at 0.05 percent. After statistical treatment, result showed that there exists significance relationship between selected anthropometric variables and combination of two or more selected anthropometric variables and performance in hockey.

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